speckled wood

noun

a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots

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The Speckled Wood, it was noted, prefers shady places; the present butterfly is more partial to sunshine and plenty of it.

Harris changed the name to the "Speckled Wood Butterfly," which seems even more suitable.

Beside the woods I mentioned for dyeing and other uses as fustick, speckled-wood, etc.

Bringing back his prize, they examined it and pronounced it to be the speckled wood butterfly or wood argus.

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