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n. Common name for the big, white and black butterfly (taxlink Pieris brassicae species noshow=1), of the family Pieridae. Also known as the large white,
Usage examples of "cabbage white".
In the east was the escarpment, then the wide valley, then the high ridge which smelt of thyme and lavender and was pretty with cabbage white butterflies, and then the small valley, and then the Teso San Miguel with Arapiles at its foot, and beyond the village and the small hill the plain stretched to the west.
This has been used experimentally on a small commercial scale with good effects on cabbage moths, cabbage aphids and cabbage white butterflies.
The cabbage white butterflies flickered upon the still air as if nothing whatsoever were out of the ordinary, while delicious-looking apricot and violet-coloured clouds continued to chase one another across the sun according to the indifferent logic of the upper heavens, for the clouds were moved by a fierce wind that blew so high above the wood everything around me was as tranquil as water trapped in a lock, and mocked the inward perturbation that shook me.
But it had taken no account of the black fly, the wireworm, the turnip-beetle, the leather-jacket, the green-fly and the black, the cabbage white.
That is, unless one of you has discovered the slot of a Large Cabbage White just then, and is following up the trail very keenly.