"Falklands fritillary" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: Falklands fritillaries [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Falklands fritillary (plural Falklands fritillaries)
  1. A species of butterfly found in the Falkland Islands (Yramea cytheris). Wikipedia link: Yramea cytheris
    Sense id: en-Falklands_fritillary-en-noun-MWbUZPDx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1987, Ian Strange, The Falkland Islands and Their Natural History, Newton Abbot, England: David & Charles, page 129:",
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          "ref": "1989, Sylvia Sullivan, The RSPB Book of the Birdwatching Year, Calgary, Alberta: Equation, →ISBN, page 207:",
          "text": "Little rusty butterflies — the endemic Falkland fritillaries — jigged along close to the turf, as if fearful that a change in the weather could blow them away from their islands forever.",
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          "ref": "1992, Ian Strange, A Field Guide to the Wildlife of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 159:",
          "text": "Or alternatively, but less plausibly, there could be a small breeding population on the islands which migrates to South America during the winter. Larger than the Falkland Fritillary and has a much swifter zig-zag flight.",
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          "ref": "1997, Robin Woods, Nick Woods, “Middle Island & Motley Island Nature Reserves: Report on field survey work in January 1997”, in Falklands Conservation:",
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          "text": "[…] the common and widespread Viola maculata is given protected status not be cause it is rare or endangered, but because it is thought to be the larval food plant of the 'Queen-of-the-Falklands Fritillary (Issoria cytheris) a nationally rare butterfly and protected wild animal.",
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          "text": "Of particular notes is the presence of only one butterfly species, the Queen of the Falklands Fritillary, Yramea cytheris — currently thought to breed in the Falkland Islands.",
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