Search Result for "pieris rapae":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly;
[syn: cabbageworm, Pieris rapae]

2. small widely distributed form;
[syn: small white, Pieris rapae]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

cabbage butterfly \cab"bage butterfly\ (Zool.), a white butterfly (Pieris rap[ae] 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] cabbage worm
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

cabbage worm \cab"bage worm`\, cabbageworm \cab"bage*worm`\n. (Zool.), the larva of several species of moths and butterflies, which attacks cabbages. The most common is the toxic green larva of a white butterfly, the cabbage butterfly, (Pieris rap[ae]). The cabbage cutworms, which eat off the stalks of young plants during the night, are the larv[ae] of several species of moths, of the genus Agrotis. See Cutworm. larva of a cabbage butterfly. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Pieris rapae n 1: toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly [syn: cabbageworm, Pieris rapae] 2: small widely distributed form [syn: small white, Pieris rapae]