cabbage butterfly
cab´bage butterfly
| 1. | (Zool.) a white butterfly (Pieris rapæ of both Europe and America, and the allied Pieris oleracea, a native American species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip. See also Cabbage worm, below. |
| Noun | 1. |  cabbage butterfly - white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage |