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spring beauty en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. Any of various species of flowering plant of the genus Claytonia, primarily native to the Americas and northeastern Asia.
    • On the lane below, more orangetips nectared on spring beauties and violets. 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, page 123:
  2. (obsolete) A small American butterfly, the early hairstreak (Erora laeta), which appears in spring. The hind wings of the male are brown, bordered with deep blue; those of the female are mostly blue.

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spring beauties Number=Plur lexicographic
springbeauty alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

Great Basin spring beauty · Carolina spring beauty · Ogilvie Mountains spring beauty · Brandegee's spring beauty · Siberian spring beauty · Virginia spring beauty · redstem spring beauty · tuberous spring beauty · western spring beauty · Arctic spring beauty · Jonesville spring beauty · lanceleaf spring beauty · heartleaf spring beauty · serpentine spring beauty · springbeauty · gypsum spring beauty · Sierra spring beauty · Beringian spring beauty · alpine spring beauty · eastern spring beauty · Rocky Mountain spring beauty · Madrean spring beauty