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Definition of Pieridae
1. Noun. Arthropod family including cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Lepidoptera, Order Lepidoptera
Member holonyms: Pierid, Pierid Butterfly, Cabbage Butterfly, Genus Pieris, Pieris, Sulfur Butterfly, Sulphur Butterfly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pieridae
Literary usage of Pieridae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Colour in Nature: A Study in Biology by Marion Isabel Newbigin (1898)
"... —The Pigments of the Pieridae—Pigments of other Butterflies—Origin of the
Pigments of Butterflies—Contrast between the Pigments of Butterflies and those ..."
2. Bulletin of the University of Montana by University of Montana (Missoula, Mont.) (1903)
"FAMILY Pieridae. Small or medium sized; hind wings not tailed; white or yellow
in color; with dark marginal markings. Pierinae. SUB-FAMILY PIERINAE (The ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"Pieridae.—The six legs well developed, and similar in the sexes ; there is no
pad on the ... There are upwards of 1000 species of Pieridae already known. ..."
4. The Malay Archipelago, the Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1877)
"Ten species of Pieridae have the same character, and in four or five of the
Nymphalidae it is also very distinctly marked. In almost every case the species ..."
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