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Translate butterflies from English to French

Summary

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butterflies:
- papillons; papillons animaux
butterfly:
- papillon
Wiktionary:
- butterfly → papillon, rhopalocère
- butterfly → papillon

English

Detailed Translations for butterflies from English to French

butterflies:

butterflies [the ~] noun

the butterflies
le papillons; le papillons animaux
- papillons [le ~] noun
- papillons animaux [le ~] noun

Translation Matrix for butterflies:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
papillons	butterflies
papillons animaux	butterflies

Related Words for "butterflies":

butterfly

butterfly:

butterfly [the ~] noun

the butterfly
le papillon
- papillon [le ~] noun

Translation Matrix for butterfly:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
papillon	butterfly	bow tie; dicky bow; moth
-	butterfly stroke
Verb	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	chat up; coquet; coquette; dally; flirt; mash; philander; romance

Related Words for "butterfly":

butterflies

Synonyms for "butterfly":

lepidopterous insect; lepidopteron; lepidopteran
butterfly stroke; swimming stroke
flit; flutter; fleet; dart
unfold; spread; spread out; open
chat up; flirt; dally; coquet; coquette; romance; philander; mash; talk; speak

Related Definitions for "butterfly":

a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down¹
diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings¹
talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions¹
cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking¹
flutter like a butterfly¹

Wiktionary Translations for butterfly:

butterfly

noun

insect
- butterfly → papillon

butterfly

noun

Papillon de jour (rhopalocère)
- papillon → butterfly
lépidoptère (papillon) dont les antennes sont terminées en massue, souvent diurne. note Ce taxon ne figure plus en tant que tel dans les classifications modernes des lépidoptères, mais il continue parfois d'être utilisé par commodité pour désigner les papillons dits « de jour ».
- rhopalocère → butterfly

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• butterfly	→ papillon	↔ Falter — Biologie: Vertreter einer artenreichen Ordnung der Insekten; Schmetterling
• butterfly	→ papillon	↔ Tagfalter — am Tage fliegender Schmetterling mit Knöpfen an den Fühlern (Rhopalocera, echte T. = ÜberFamilie Papilionoídea)

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¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University