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BUTTERFLIES Antonyms

There are 10 antonyms of the word butterflies. (opposite meanings)
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flies
verb, nounv, n
noun

• (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)

ants
nounn
noun

• social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers

beetles
nounn
noun

• insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings

• a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing

adjective satellite

• jutting or overhanging

verb

• be suspended over or hang over

• fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle

• beat with a beetle

caterpillars
nounn
noun

• a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth

• a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work

grubs
verb, nounv, n
noun

• informal terms for a meal

• a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects

verb

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

• search about busily

moths
nounn
noun

• typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae

roaches
nounn
noun

• a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead

• the butt of a marijuana cigarette

• street names for flunitrazepam

• any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests

• European freshwater food fish having a greenish back

verb

• comb (hair) into a roach

• cut the mane off (a horse)

spiders
nounn
noun

• predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey

• a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine

• a skillet made of cast iron

wasps
nounn
noun

• social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting

• a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination

worms
nounn
noun

• any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network

• screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack

verb

• to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)

Alternatives for FLIES

Alternatives for ANTS

Alternatives for BEETLES

Alternatives for CATERPILLARS

Alternatives for GRUBS

Alternatives for MOTHS

Alternatives for ROACHES

Alternatives for SPIDERS

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