'cabbage butterfly' definitions:
Definition of 'cabbage butterfly'
(from WordNet)
noun
White butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage
Definition of 'cabbage butterfly'
From: GCIDE
- cabbage butterfly \cab"bage butterfly\ (Zool.), a white butterfly (Pieris rap[ae] 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 worm