Butterfly vs. Penguin — What's the Difference?

Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight.

Penguins (order Sphenisciformes , family Spheniscidae ) are a group of aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, with only one species, the Galápagos penguin, found north of the Equator.

A nectar-feeding insect with two pairs of large, typically brightly coloured wings that are covered with microscopic scales. Butterflies are distinguished from moths by having clubbed or dilated antennae, holding their wings erect when at rest, and being active by day.

Any of various stout, flightless aquatic birds of the family Spheniscidae, of the Southern Hemisphere, having flipperlike wings and webbed feet adapted for swimming and diving, short scalelike feathers, and white underparts with a dark back.

A stroke in swimming in which both arms are raised out of the water and lifted forwards together.

(Obsolete) The great auk.

Split (a piece of meat or fish) almost in two and spread it out flat

Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.

Any of numerous insects of the order Lepidoptera, having four broad, usually colorful wings, and generally distinguished from the moths by having a slender body and knobbed antennae and being active during the day.

An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere.

A person interested principally in frivolous pleasure

(slang) A nun (association through appearance, because of the often black-and-white habit).

A swimming stroke in which a swimmer lying face down draws both arms upward out of the water, thrusts them forward, and draws them back under the water in an hourglass design while performing a dolphin kick.

(juggling) A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.

A race or a leg of a race in which this stroke is swum.

A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, Bromelia pinguin.

Butterflies A feeling of unease or mild nausea caused especially by fearful anticipation.

A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft.

To cut and spread open and flat, as shrimp.

Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under Jackass.

A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.

The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges.

A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.

Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers

(swimming) The butterfly stroke.

Any of several plane curves that look like a butterfly; see Butterfly curve (transcendental) and Butterfly curve (algebraic). Category:en:Curves

(in plural) A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach.

Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable.

(finance) A combination of four options of the same type at three strike prices giving limited profit and limited risk.

(alternate history) A random change in an aspect of the timeline seemingly unrelated to the primary point of divergence, resulting from the butterfly effect.

(sports) A type of stretch in which one sits on the ground with the legs folded into a shape like that of a butterfly's wings, slightly rocking them up and down, resembling the wings fluttering.

A person who changes partners frequently.

(transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.

(transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.

To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect.

A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings

A swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down

Flutter like a butterfly

Cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking;

Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions;