small tortoiseshell
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.36 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The colourful butterfly Aglais urticae, of the family Nymphalidae.
Example Sentences
- "Researchers found that 15 of 17 species which commonly live on farmland – including the small tortoiseshell, small skipper and wall butterfly – show declines associated with increasing neonic use. […] Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper (35%)."