Butterfly vs. Spatchcock — 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.

A dressed and split fowl for roasting or grilling.

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.

To prepare (a dressed fowl) for roasting or grilling by splitting open.

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

To introduce or interpose, especially in a labored or unsuitable manner

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

Poultry which has been cut along the spine and spread out for more even cooking.

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.

(cooking) To cut (poultry) along the spine and spread the halves apart for more even cooking.

A person interested principally in frivolous pleasure

(figuratively) Often followed by in or into: to interpolate or insert (something into another thing); to sandwich (something within another thing).

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.

See Spitchcock.

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

Flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed)

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

Prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock;

To cut and spread open and flat, as shrimp.

Interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story

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.

(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;