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1. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colourful wings
    
2. A swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down
   - butterfly stroke

1. Flutter like a butterfly
    
2. Cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking
   "butterflied shrimp"
    
3. Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
   "The guys always try to butterfly the new secretaries"
   - chat up, flirt, dally, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash, flirter

Derived forms: butterflied, butterflies, butterflying

Type of: dart, fleet, flit, flutter, lepidopteran, lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect, open, speak, spread, spread out, swimming stroke, talk, unfold

Encyclopedia: Butterfly