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- A butterfly is a flying insect of the order Lepidoptera.
- "Butterfly" is a popular song, charting in versions by Andy Williams and Charlie Gracie in 1957.
- Butterfly is a 1997 album released by Mariah Carey.
- "Butterfly" is a 1997 single released by Mariah Carey.
- The butterfly stroke is a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down.
- In chaos theory, the term butterfly effect is used to describe certain chaotic phenomena.
- The Butterfly Effect was a movie released in 2004, starring Ashton Kutcher
- A butterfly nut is a fastening, for use with a bolt, with a pair of metal "wings".
- The feeling referred to as butterflies in your stomach, usually felt when you are nervous or excited, is a result of your adrenal glands releasing adrenalin into your blood. The adrenalin routes blood to important muscles and other organs, slowing the blood flow to the stomach and thus causing the fluttering feeling.
- Butterflies was a TV series in the UK.
- A Butterfly knife is a knife used in certain Filipino martial arts, also known as a Balisong.
- A butterfly needle is a small needle attached to flexible tubing, and is used to collect blood (venipuncture).
- A Butterfly Fish is one of a number of species of fish, popular with aquarium keepers [1].
- The Mirabal sisters were known within their Dominican revolutionary movement as the "Butterflies".
- The butterfly curve is a parametric equation discovered by Temple H. Fay.
- Butterfly style is a goaltending style in ice hockey.
- In fast Fourier transforms, a butterfly is a portion of the algorithm that combines sub-transforms into larger transforms.
- For a long list of translations of butterfly, see Wiktionary:butterfly
