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cabbage butterfly
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cabbage butterfly,
a white butterfly (Pieris rapæ of both Europe and America, and the allied Pieris oleracea , a native American species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip. See also Cabbage worm, below. [1913 Webster]
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