orange-tip

noun

1. a European butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines, having whitish wings with orange-tipped forewings: family Pieridae

Example Sentences

Species like the orange-tip, peacockand ringlethave moved further and further north, away from the rising warmth and humidity.

From Salon

Some manufacturers fought the orange-tip requirement, designed as a signal to police that a gun is just a toy, “because it delegitimized the appeal of their product,” he says.

From Washington Post

Some manufacturers fought the orange-tip requirement, designed as a signal to police that a gun is just a toy, "because it delegitimized the appeal of their product," he says.

From Chicago Tribune

Here are the last of the ten stamps featuring the orange-tip, small copper, marsh fritillary and brimstone butterflies.

From Children's BBC

May was not gone when Dorothy came back; the cuckoo was not even yet much out of tune; the fallow deer did not yet display all their snowy summer freckles; the whitethroat still sang to his lady sitting close in the nettles by the orchard's edge; apple-blossom was still strewn upon the lengthening grass; the orange-tip still danced along the glades; the red and white candles upon the horse-chestnuts were not yet burned out.

From Project Gutenberg