cabbage white

noun

any large white butterfly of the genus Pieris, esp the Eurasian species P. brassicae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and related vegetables: family Pieridae

Words nearby cabbage white

cabbage palm, cabbage palmetto, cabbage root fly, cabbage rose, cabbage tree, cabbage white, cabbage-tree hat, cabbagehead, cabbagetown, cabbageworm, cabbagy

Example sentences from the Web for cabbage white

  • Occasionally a tortoise-shell or cabbage-white butterfly would flutter by.

    Kashmir |Sir Francis Edward Younghusband

  • We have communicated to America the house-fly and the Hessian fly, the "cabbage-white," the small pox, and the cholera.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 |Various