Definitions for painted lady
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
paint′ed la′dy(n.)
a butterfly, Vanessa cardui, having brownish black and orange wings and hind wings each with four eyespots.
Category: Entomology
Origin of painted lady:
1745–55
Wiktionary
painted lady(Noun)
A cryptic patterned butterfly, Vanessa cardui, of the family Nymphalidae.
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