LARGE WHITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does large white mean? 

• LARGE WHITE (noun)
  The noun LARGE WHITE has 1 sense:

1. Old World form of cabbage butterfly

  Familiarity information: LARGE WHITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LARGE WHITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Old World form of cabbage butterfly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

large white; Pieris brassicae

Hypernyms ("large white" is a kind of...):

cabbage butterfly (white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage)

Holonyms ("large white" is a member of...):

genus Pieris; Pieris (type genus of the Pieridae)

 Context examples 

In a corner of the room was something neatly covered up with a large white cloth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)