speckled wood

noun

A brown and cream butterfly with a row of small eyespots, Pararge aegeria, of the family Nymphalidae.

Meanings

nounspeckled wood (plural speckled woods)

plural speckled woods

  1. A brown and cream butterfly with a row of small eyespots, Pararge aegeria, of the family Nymphalidae.

Translations

Dutch bont zandoogje
  • bont zandoogjebutterfly
French tircis
  • tircisbutterfly
Russian краегла́зка эге́рия
  • краегла́зка эге́рия (krajeglázka egérija)butterfly
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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