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owl butterfly
[oul buht-er-flahy]
noun
any of several very large nymphalid butterflies of the genus Caligo, native to the forests of Mexico, Central America, and South America, having a prominent eyespot resembling an owl's eye on each hindwing: its caterpillar is a pest to banana and sugar cane plantations.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of owl butterfly1
Example Sentences
I didn’t have the heart to tell her that her breakthrough moment involved an owl butterfly, not a moth.
We recognized the insomniac eye of the owl butterfly and the tiger stripes of the longwing, the saturated Rothko hues of the cattle heart and the stained-glass design of the atlas moth.
When you watch an owl butterfly as big as your face open and close its spotted wings; or you go to open your water bottle and discover a frog the size of an M&M sitting on its lid.
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