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butterfly

noun as in caterpillar

Strong matches

Weak match

noun as in kiss

noun as in lady

verb as in kiss

verb as in smooch

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Not only is the result prettier than grass, the plants also support pollinators like moths and butterflies.

Not just for the beautiful colours but for the vibrancy of the bees, butterflies and moths flying around, which need that habitat.

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Roswell residents know how to have fun, and the city hosts all kinds of annual festivals ranging from a summertime ice cream social and monarch butterfly celebration to outdoor movies.

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Just like butterflies grow inside a cocoon, planets form inside the cozy belly of protoplanetary discs.

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Even in the most wholesome times in his life, as a little league baseball player and school theater kid, he would get a similar “butterfly in the stomach feeling” from the performance of it all.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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