fritillary
弗里德里希,弗里德利特,弗里德里克,弗里特利特
Definitions
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plural frit·il·lar·ies.
- : any of several orange-brown nymphalid butterflies, usually marked with black lines and dots and with silvery spots on the undersides of the wings.
Examples
Each of these silver-washed fritillaries was housed in a net enclosure and fed honey water.
The bright-orange Gulf fritillary, for example, is thriving not on native plants but on flowers popular in home gardens, Forister said.
He owned he might have been mistaken, as the brilliant fellow flew swift and high between leaves, like an ordinary fritillary.
On these sunflakes numerous fritillary butterflies with silver under wings were fluttering, and countless flies were humming.
The old lady had thrown off her impermeable chrysalis, and had emerged therefrom a very sober fritillary.
Sixty years or so before that date it was called the "Greater Silver-streaked Fritillary."
Petiver, who mentioned the last-named locality, calls it the "Dullidge Fritillary."