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"Butterfly" Definition

Word Fact:
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

noun

A feeling of unease or mild nausea caused especially by fearful anticipation.
A person interested principally in frivolous pleasure: a social butterfly.
Any of various insects of the order Lepidoptera, characteristically having slender bodies, knobbed antennae, and four broad, usually colorful wings.
Sports A race or a leg of a race in which this stroke is swum.
Sports A swimming stroke in which a swimmer lying face down draws both arms upward out of the water, thrusts them forward, and draws them back under the water in an hourglass design while performing a dolphin kick.

verb-transitive

To cut and spread open and flat, as shrimp.

verb

To split almost entirely and spread apart .

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