Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A family of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera or butterflies, founded by Boisduval in 1840 on the Latreillean genus Nymphalis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A natural family of large beautifully colored butterflies, called also the
brush-footed butterflies ; formerly calledNymphales .
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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within theseries Papilioniformes — the brush-footedbutterflies ornymphalids .
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- noun large beautifully colored butterflies
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Nymphalidae are a very extensive group, of generally strong-winged and very bright-coloured butterflies, very abundant in the tropics, and represented in our own country by our Fritillaries, our Vanessas, and our Purple-emperor.
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The Nymphalidae are a very extensive group, of generally strong-winged and very bright-coloured butterflies, very abundant in the tropics, and represented in our own country by our
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Sasakia charonda, the Great purple emperor, is a species of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae that can be found in Japan (from Hokkaidō to Kyūshū), Korean Peninsula, China, Northern Taiwan and Northern Vietnam.
Butterfly Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008
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The monarch (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae), in the family Nymphalidae.
Death of a Monarch 2008
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Other large and attractive species common in these forests belong to the Nymphalidae family, for example the forest king charaxes (Charaxes xiphares), the golden-banded forester (Euphaedra neophron) and the forest green (Euryphura achlys).
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Iphias leucippe; the largest of the Danaidae, Hestia idea; and two unusually large and handsome Nymphalidae — Diadema pandarus, and Charaxes euryalus.
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(Ornithoptera) here reach their maximum of size and beauty, and many of the Papilios, Pieridae Danaidae, and Nymphalidae are equally preeminent.
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Ten species of Pieridae have the same character, and in four or five of the Nymphalidae it is also very distinctly marked.
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(Nymphalidae), but so far as is known, no farming enterprises exist.
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Species belonging to the families Nymphalidae and Pieridae are good candidates for farming, as they are in much demand from dealers.
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