butterfly net

English

Noun

butterfly net (plural butterfly nets)

1. A small net with attached handle used to collect butterflies and other insect species.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     He spends his days flitting through the woods with his shot-gun and his butterfly-net, and his evenings in mounting the many specimens he has acquired.

Translations

net used to collect butterflies

• Belarusian: сачо́к m (sačók)
• Catalan: caçapapallones m, salabret (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 捕蟲網 / 捕虫网 (zh) (bǔchóngwǎng), 捕網 / 捕网 (bǔwǎng), 蝴蝶網 / 蝴蝶网 (húdiéwǎng)

• Dutch: vlindernet (nl)
• Estonian: liblikavõrk
• Finnish: perhoshaavi
• French: filet à papillons (fr) m
• German: Schmetterlingsnetz (de) n
• Italian: acchiappafarfalle m
• Japanese: バタフライネット (batafurainetto)
• Portuguese: puçá m
• Russian: сачо́к (ru) m (sačók)
• Ukrainian: сачо́к m (sačók)
• Welsh: rhwyd ddal gwyfynod f