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📖 Определения и значения для слова butterfly

📒 a flying insect with a long thin body and four large, usually brightly coloured, wings

  • butterflies and moths
  • She's like a butterfly. She flits in and out of people's lives.
  • The butterfly emerged from the pupa.

📒 a swimming stroke in which you swim on your front and lift both arms forward at the same time while your legs move up and down together

  • She was third in the 200m butterfly (= a swimming race).

📒 to have a nervous feeling in your stomach before doing something

  • I had butterflies in my stomach as I went to get my exam results.
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