wall brown

English

Noun

wall brown (plural wall browns)

1. An orange and brown butterfly (Lasiommata megera), of the family Nymphalidae.

   Synonym: wall

   • 2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper (35%).

Translations

butterfly

• Finnish: ruostepapurikko
• French: mégère (fr)
• Russian: бурогла́зка меге́ра f (buroglázka megéra), краегла́зка меге́ра f (krajeglázka megéra)