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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A son of King Priam of Troy, depicted as Cressida's lover in medieval romance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large swallow-tailed butterfly, Papilio troilus, common in the United States.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A large, handsome American butterfly (Euphœades troilus, or Papilio troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue spots on the rear wings; -- also called troilus butterfly.

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