Cabbage butterfly Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage

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Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.), a white butterfly (Pieris rapæ of both Europe and America, and the Allied P. oleracea, a native American species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip. See Cabbage worm, below.

Webster 1913