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Answer for the clue "Butterfly with black-and-white eyespots ", 9 letters:
woodnymph

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Woodnymphs are hummingbirds in the genus Thalurania . Males are green and violet-blue, while females are green with white-tipped tails and at least partially whitish underparts. Both sexes have an almost straight, entirely black bill and little or no white ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context mythology English) A nymph residing in a forest, a dryad. 2 A hummingbird of the genus ''Thalurania''.

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There were river-gods, woodnymphs, fire-spirits, elves, wills o' the wisp, pixies, chthonic deities, earth-mothers, thunder-demons, even a few metaphysical abstractions huddled wretchedly at the back and insisting on soft lavatory paper.