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butterfly net en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A small net with attached handle used to collect butterflies and other insect species.
   • He spends his days flitting through the woods with his shot-gun and his butterfly-net, and his evenings in mounting the many specimens he has acquired. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘To-Morrow we Disappear into the Unknown’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 98:

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Translations (18)

be сачо́к (net used to collect butterflies) · fi perhoshaavi (net used to collect butterflies) · fr filet à papillons (net used to collect butterflies) · de Schmetterlingsnetz (net used to collect butterflies) · ca caçapapallones (net used to collect butterflies) · uk сачо́к (net used to collect butterflies) · nl vlindernet (net used to collect butterflies) · ca salabret (net used to collect butterflies) · et liblikavõrk (net used to collect butterflies) · ja バタフライネット (net used to collect butterflies) · ru сачо́к (net used to collect butterflies) · it acchiappafarfalle (net used to collect butterflies) · pt puçá (net used to collect butterflies) · cmn 捕網 /捕网 (net used to collect butterflies) · cmn 捕蟲網 /捕虫网 (net used to collect butterflies) · ro plasă de prins fluturi (net used to collect butterflies) · cmn 蝴蝶網 /蝴蝶网 (net used to collect butterflies) · cy rhwyd ddal gwyfynod (net used to collect butterflies)