tortoiseshell butterfly

1. 1.

   brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles

   Synonymstortoiseshell

   Broadernymphalid

   Part ofNymphalis

Questions about tortoiseshell butterfly

What does tortoiseshell butterfly mean?

tortoiseshell butterfly means "brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles".

What is another word for tortoiseshell butterfly?

Close synonyms include tortoiseshell. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tortoiseshell butterfly a common word?

tortoiseshell butterfly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.