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Definition of Pieris brassicae
1. Noun. Old World form of cabbage butterfly.
Generic synonyms: Cabbage Butterfly
Group relationships: Genus Pieris, Pieris
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pieris Brassicae
Literary usage of Pieris brassicae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1909)
"Middle abdominal segment of pieris brassicae, stage III. 8. ... A tubercle of
pieris brassicae. In P. rapae it is quite the same. ..."
2. Report on Economic Biology by Walter Edward Collinge (1912)
"... but better have been obtained by hoeing in a heavy dressing of soot around
the young plants. THE LARGE CABBAGE WHITE BUTTERFLY. pieris brassicae, Linn. ..."
3. Biotechnology: Building on Farmers' Knowledge by Joske F. G. Bunders, Bertus Haverkort, Wim Hiemstra (1996)
"... Phyllotreta vitta- ta, pieris brassicae, P. rapae, Plodia interpunctella,
Plutella xylostella, ..."
4. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"(Studies on the inheritance of the coloration induced in the pupae of Pieris
brassicae by colored light.) Nachrichten K. Ges. Wise. Göttingen 1919. ..."
5. The Microscope in Botany: A Guide for the Microscopical Investigation of by Wilhelm Julius Behrens (1885)
"Chevalier (Les Microscopes, etc.,) described the scales of pieris brassicae as
beset with longitudin.d ridges which were formed by minute balls placed near ..."
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