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Lepidoptera (order comprising the butterflies and moths)

Hanafuda

the boar, deer and butterfly cards (high-scoring meld)

Dated term; Hanafuda

inoshikacho (type of hanafuda gambling game)

small cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae)

silver-lipped pearl oyster (Pinctada maxima); golden-lipped pearl oyster; white-lipped pearl oyster

fringed iris (Iris japonica); Japanese iris

any butterfly of family Pieridae (incl. the white butterflies and the sulfur butterflies)

spangle (species of black swallowtail butterfly, Papilio protenor)

chestnut tiger butterfly (Parantica sita)

black-lip pearl oyster (Pinctada margaritifera)

eastern pale clouded yellow (butterfly, Colias erate)

national butterfly

Word usually written using kana alone

large grass yellow (species of butterfly, Eurema hecabe); common grass yellow

yellow butterfly

gossamer-winged butterflies (Lycaenidae spp.)

tree nymph butterfly (Idea leuconoe)

sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus)

nymphalid (any butterfly of family Nymphalidae)

peacock butterfly (Inachis io); European peacock

satyrid (any butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae, esp. the dryad, Minois dryas); grayling

cat's whiskers (Cleome gynandra)

Chinese windmill (species of red-bodied swallowtail butterfly, Atrophaneura alcinous)

skipper butterfly

beluga (species of sturgeon, Huso huso)

Great Mormon (species of swallowtail butterfly, Papilio memnon)

Ponerorchis graminifolia (Orchis graminifolia)