English-Portuguese translations for butterfly

borboletaTem certamente importância se os efluentes são medidos do topo de um tubo ou à distância de um quilómetro com uma rede de mão com que se apanham as borboletas. It does actually make a difference whether we measure emissions from a pipe or in a butterfly net a kilometre away. Como sabem, um bater de asas de uma borboleta em Estrasburgo pode por vezes provocar um furacão a milhares de quilómetros. As we now know, the beating of a butterfly's wings in Strasbourg may sometimes unleash a hurricane thousands of miles away. Cerca de 35% de todas as espécies de aves estão ameaçadas e o mesmo se passa com, pelo menos, 45% das espécies de borboletas, para citar dois exemplos. Something in the order of 55 percent of all species of bird are endangered, as are no less than 45 percent of butterfly species, to mention just two examples.
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A flying insect of the order ''Lepidoptera'', distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed
The butterfly stroke.
Someone seen as being unserious and dress#Verb|dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable.
To cut almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly
To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across to close it

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