butterfly net
English
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Noun
[edit]butterfly net (plural butterfly nets)
- A small net with attached handle used to collect butterflies and other insect species.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]net used to collect butterflies
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