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Pieris floribunda
(gcide) | fetterbush \fet"ter*bush`\ n.
1. An ornamental evergreen shrub (Pieris floribunda) of the
Southeastern U. S. having small white bell-shaped flowers.
Syn: mountain fetterbush, mountain andromeda, {Pieris
floribunda}.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. A showy evergreen shrub (Lyonia lucida) of the
Southeastern U. S. with shiny leaves and angled branches
and umbel-like clusters of pink to reddish flowers.
Syn: fetter bush, shiny lyonia, Lyonia lucida.
[WordNet 1.5] |
Pieris oleracea
(gcide) | cabbage butterfly \cab"bage butterfly\ (Zool.),
a white butterfly (Pieris rap[ae] of both Europe and
America, and the allied Pieris oleracea, a native American
species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of
the cabbage and the turnip. See also Cabbage worm, below.
[1913 Webster] cabbage worm |
Pieris rapae
(gcide) | cabbage butterfly \cab"bage butterfly\ (Zool.),
a white butterfly (Pieris rap[ae] of both Europe and
America, and the allied Pieris oleracea, a native American
species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of
the cabbage and the turnip. See also Cabbage worm, below.
[1913 Webster] cabbage wormcabbage worm \cab"bage worm`\, cabbageworm \cab"bage*worm`\n.
(Zool.),
the larva of several species of moths and butterflies, which
attacks cabbages. The most common is the toxic green larva of
a white butterfly, the cabbage butterfly, ({Pieris
rap[ae]}). The cabbage cutworms, which eat off the stalks of
young plants during the night, are the larv[ae] of several
species of moths, of the genus Agrotis. See Cutworm.
larva of a cabbage butterfly.
[WordNet 1.5] |
genus pieris
(wn) | genus Pieris
n 1: decorative evergreen shrubs of woody vines [syn: Pieris,
genus Pieris]
2: type genus of the Pieridae [syn: Pieris, genus Pieris] |
pieris brassicae
(wn) | Pieris brassicae
n 1: Old World form of cabbage butterfly [syn: large white,
Pieris brassicae] |
pieris floribunda
(wn) | Pieris floribunda
n 1: ornamental evergreen shrub of southeastern United States
having small white bell-shaped flowers [syn: fetterbush,
mountain fetterbush, mountain andromeda, {Pieris
floribunda}] |
pieris japonica
(wn) | Pieris japonica
n 1: broad-leaved evergreen Asiatic shrub with glossy leaves and
drooping clusters of white flowers [syn: andromeda,
Japanese andromeda, lily-of-the-valley tree, {Pieris
japonica}] |
pieris protodice
(wn) | Pieris protodice
n 1: common North American form of cabbage butterfly [syn:
southern cabbage butterfly, Pieris protodice] |
pieris rapae
(wn) | Pieris rapae
n 1: toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly [syn:
cabbageworm, Pieris rapae]
2: small widely distributed form [syn: small white, {Pieris
rapae}] |
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