purple emperor

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purple emperor
 
n
any of several Old World nymphalid butterflies of the genus Apatura, esp A. iris, having mottled purple-and-brown wings

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Purple emperor is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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purple emperor

noun
large European butterfly the male of which has wings shaded with purple 
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