Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, shaped like a butterfly; papilionaceous.
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- adjective shaped like a butterfly
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Examples
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The thyroid, a butterfly-shaped gland beneath the Adam's apple in the neck, is responsible for producing and regulating some of the hormones that control metabolism.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Thyroid Cancer: The Facts M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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The thyroid, a butterfly-shaped gland beneath the Adam's apple in the neck, is responsible for producing and regulating some of the hormones that control metabolism.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Thyroid Cancer: The Facts M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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The thyroid, a butterfly-shaped gland beneath the Adam's apple in the neck, is responsible for producing and regulating some of the hormones that control metabolism.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Thyroid Cancer: The Facts M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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Those with long chins, for instance, look best in upswept or butterfly-shaped lenses that draw the eyes upward, he says.
Dark Secrets: Sunglass Designer Picks His Shades Alina Dizik 2011
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This is proven by the butterfly-shaped roof, an innovative concept and structure that allows light to penetrate the conference rooms and the other offices.
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Those with long chins, for instance, look best in upswept or butterfly-shaped lenses that draw the eyes upward, he says.
Dark Secrets: Sunglass Designer Picks His Shades Alina Dizik 2011
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From the bone marrow they move to the thymus, a butterfly-shaped organ situated over the heart in the center of the upper chest, right behind your sternum, or breastbone.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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From the bone marrow they move to the thymus, a butterfly-shaped organ situated over the heart in the center of the upper chest, right behind your sternum, or breastbone.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Come spring, a whole new world awaits with a live butterfly garden, leaping fountains and butterfly-shaped topiaries.
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About ten minutes later, there was a flash, and a powerful shock wave ripped through the forest, flattening 80 million trees in a butterfly-shaped pattern over a total area of more than 2,000 square kilometers.
The Tunguska centennial ewillett 2008
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