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Definition of Mourning cloak butterfly
1. Noun. Of temperate regions; having dark purple wings with yellow borders.
Generic synonyms: Brush-footed Butterfly, Four-footed Butterfly, Nymphalid, Nymphalid Butterfly
Group relationships: Genus Nymphalis, Nymphalis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mourning Cloak Butterfly
Literary usage of Mourning cloak butterfly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature Biographies: The Lives of Some Every-day Butterflies; Moths by Clarence Moores Weed (1903)
"This insect is called the Antiopa or Mourning- cloak Butterfly; it is represented
natural size in Figure. It has passed the winter in this adult condition, ..."
2. Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist by Leverett White Brownell (1904)
"Mourning-cloak Butterfly. Of course, to do the best work possible in this branch,
one should be something of an entomologist ; but this knowledge will come, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1922)
"Not only is the phototropism of the mourning-cloak butterfly complicated, but
the insect exhibits also this peculiarity : that though positively phototropic ..."
4. Nature Study in Elementary Schools: A Manual for Teachers by Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson (1897)
"... the Milkweed or Monarch, as it is often called, are larger, more beautiful,
and more interesting, if they can be ob- mourning cloak butterfly on Willow. ..."
5. Animal Activities: A First Book in Zoölogy by Nathaniel Stowers French (1902)
"Mourning-cloak Butterfly {Vanessa antiopa). antiopa), which shows the wear due
to its winter sleep, and is ready to produce eggs for the summer brood. ..."
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