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Is a butterfly an insect?

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butterfly, a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths

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insect, a six legged invertebrate

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Is butterfly, a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths a type of Insects (from Latin ', a calque of Greek ['], "cut into sections"), the class within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax, and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae?

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A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle ...