wall brown

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Noun

wall brown (plural wall browns)

  1. An orange and brown butterfly (Lasiommata megera), of the family Nymphalidae.
    Synonym: wall
    • 2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian‎:
      Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper (35%).

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