"chequered skipper" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: chequered skippers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} chequered skipper (plural chequered skippers)
  1. A brown and orange chequered butterfly, Carterocephalus palaemon, of the family Hesperiidae Wikipedia link: chequered skipper Categories (lifeform): Skippers Translations (butterfly): keltatäplähiipijä (Finnish), kockás busalepke (Hungarian), толстоголо́вка палемо́н (tolstogolóvka palemón) [feminine] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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