vanessa virginiensis

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   American butterfly having dark brown wings with white and golden orange spots

   Synonymspainted beauty

   Broadernymphalid

   Part ofVanessa

Questions about vanessa virginiensis

What does vanessa virginiensis mean?

vanessa virginiensis means "American butterfly having dark brown wings with white and golden orange spots".

What is another word for vanessa virginiensis?

Close synonyms include painted beauty. 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 vanessa virginiensis a common word?

vanessa virginiensis 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.