BUTTERFLIES Antonyms
Definition of BUTTERFLIES
butterfly
Best Opposite Words For BUTTERFLIES
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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) |