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Flower vs Butterfly - What's the difference?

flower | butterfly |

As nouns the difference between flower and butterfly

is that flower is a colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction while butterfly is a flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.

As verbs the difference between flower and butterfly

is that flower is to put forth blooms while butterfly is to cut almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.

flower

English

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Alternative forms

* flowre (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) flour, from (etyl) flur, from (etyl) (more at (l)).

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