Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "butterfly" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

moth

Typical Location

air meadow

Capable Of

cause wind delight fly make landing

Created By

cocoon

Derived Terms

California dogface butterfly Troilus butterfly alfalfa butterfly alpine butterfly bend alpine butterfly knot apefly break a butterfly on a wheel break a butterfly on the wheel break a butterfly upon a wheel break a butterfly upon the wheel brush-footed butterfly butterflier butterflies in one's stomach butterfly adder butterfly agave butterfly app butterfly ballot butterfly banners butterfly bat butterfly bend butterfly blenny butterfly bomb butterfly bush butterfly cake butterfly chair butterfly child butterfly clam butterfly clip butterfly cod butterfly collector butterfly connector butterfly crab butterfly dam butterfly damper butterfly door butterfly effect butterfly fish butterfly flower butterfly ginger butterfly grip butterfly hinge butterfly keyboard butterfly kick butterfly kiss butterfly knife butterfly knot butterfly lily butterfly loop butterfly milkweed butterfly mine butterfly mussel butterfly needle butterfly net butterfly nut butterfly orchid butterfly pea butterfly plant butterfly position butterfly ray butterfly roof butterfly screw butterfly shell butterfly skin butterfly sleeve butterfly stitch butterfly stroke butterfly syringe butterfly table butterfly tulip butterfly upon a wheel butterfly valve butterfly watching butterfly weed butterfly window butterfly-knotted butterflyfish butterflylike cabbage butterfly comma butterfly emperor butterfly float like a butterfly gossamer-winged butterfly harvester butterfly iron butterfly lime butterfly map butterfly milkweed butterfly monarch butterfly moth butterfly nettle tree butterfly owl butterfly paper kite butterfly peacock butterfly sea butterfly semicolon butterfly snout butterfly social butterfly spinal butterfly ray sulfur butterfly sulphur butterfly thistle butterfly zebra butterfly

Derived From

butter fly

Etymologically Related To

butter fly

Has Part

wings

Context

cooking swimming

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

dart fleet flit flutter lep lepidopteran lepidopteron lepidopterous insect open pollinator speak spread spread out swimming stroke talk unfold

Type Of (IsA)

insect intelligent agent activity lepidopteran lepidopterous insect smaller than bird surface swimming swimming stroke

Manner Of

flit unfold

Not Has Property

related to piano

Related Terms

caterpillar flutterby moth

Related Terms

after after caterpillar appendix animals beautiful beautiful moth beautiful wings beauty bug butterfly stroke caterpillar colorful colors delicate diurnal flighty flowers flutterby fly flying flying beauty flying bug flying insect gaudily grown grown caterpillar insect lepidoptera like like fly many colors monarch moth order pretty pretty insect unreliable unserious winged winged insect wings

Synonym Network

butterfly stroke chat up lep

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.