Pieridae

noun

arthropod family including cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies

• Syn: ↑family Pieridae

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Lepidoptera, ↑order Lepidoptera

• Member Meronyms:

↑pierid, ↑pierid butterfly, ↑cabbage butterfly, ↑Pieris, ↑genus Pieris, ↑sulphur butterfly, ↑sulfur butterfly

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\\pīˈerəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Pieris, type genus + -idae

: a very large and almost cosmopolitan family of butterflies formerly regarded as a subfamily of Papilionidae that comprises the cabbage butterflies, sulphur butterflies, and others having three pairs of well-developed legs in both sexes and being usually of medium size and white or yellow color with dark markings especially on the edges of the wings