English Explanatory Dictionary

Rajah Brooke's birdwing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Trogonoptera brookiana, a birdwing butterfly of Asian rainforests.

Word forms

Rajah Brooke's birdwing Rajah Brooke's birdwings

Etymology

Named by the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1855, after James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak.

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