cabbage butterfly(n = noun.animal) - white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage;
is a kind of pierid, pierid butterfly
is a member of family pieridae, pieridae
has particulars: pieris rapae, small white, large white, pieris brassicae, pieris protodice, southern 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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