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Butterflies To Be Crossword Clue

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noun

• an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult

23%11 Queasy feeling
noun

• diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings

• a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down

verb

• flutter like a butterfly

• cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking

• talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

22%5 Io’s guardian, whose 100 eyes were transferred to a peacock’s tail and name was given to several pheasants and various eye-spotted butterflies; or, any vigilant watcher/observer
noun

• large brilliantly patterned East Indian pheasant

• (Greek mythology) a giant with 100 eyes; was guardian of the heifer Io and was slain by Hermes

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