BUTTERFLY AND

MOTH (the former from "

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• BUTTER (Lat. butyrum, Gr. 0obrvpov, apparently connected with $ous, cow, and rvpbs, cheese, but, according to the New English Dictionary, perhaps of Scythian origin)

butter " and "

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• FLY (formed on the root of the supposed original Tent. fleugan, to fly)

fly," an old

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• TERM

term of uncertain origin, possibly from the nature of the excrement, or the yellow

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• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour of some particular

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• SPECIES

species; the latter akin to O. Eng. mod, an

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• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth-

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• WORM

worm)  , the common English names applied respectively to the two groups of insects forming the scientific order Lepidoptera (q.v.) . BUTTER-NUT, the product of Caryocar nuciferum, a native of tropical South America . The large nuts, known also as saowari or suwarow nuts, are the hard stone of the fruit and contain an oily nutritious seed . The genus Caryocar contains ten species, in tropical South America, some of which form large trees affording a very durable wood, useful for shipbuilding .