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comma butterfly

noun

  1. an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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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