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comma butterfly
noun
- an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
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Last week a comma butterfly, fresh from hibernation, guarded my house for three sunny days.
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The comma butterfly was in severe decline in the 20th Century and had become restricted to south east England and parts of the Welsh borders.
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And some species really moved—the comma butterfly has shifted 137 miles north in just two decades.
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"Meanwhile, the comma butterfly has moved 220 kilometres northwards from central England to Edinburgh, in only two decades."
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But the comma butterfly was able to make the leap from central England to Edinburgh, a distance of about 137 miles, in two decades.
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