| cabbage butterfly | (n) white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage |
| southern cabbage butterfly | (n) common North American form of cabbage butterfly, Syn. Pieris protodice |
| cabbage butterfly | (Zoöl.), 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. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| cabbage butterfly | (n) white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage |
| southern cabbage butterfly | (n) common North American form of cabbage butterfly, Syn. Pieris protodice |
| cabbage butterfly | (Zoöl.), 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. [ 1913 Webster ] |