papilio

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PAPIL'IO, noun [Latin] A butterfly. In zoology a genus of insects of numerous species. These insects are produced from the caterpillar. The chrysalis is the tomb of the caterpillar and the cradle of the butterfly.
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