The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SATYR , but the solution may also be SWALLOWTAIL which is one of the most recent solution (2007 in Newsday).
Type of butterfly crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SATYR | 33 % | 5 |
| SWALLOWTAIL | 11 % | 11 |
| EMPEROR | 11 % | 7 |
| MONARCH | 11 % | 7 |
| COMMA | 11 % | 5 |
| FRENATE | 11 % | 7 |
| REDADMIRAL | 11 % | 10 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Type of butterfly
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- monarch
- zebra
- painted lady
- sulphur
- mourning cloak
- viceroy
- pearl crescent
- jay
- onyx
- prince
- question mark
- vagrant
Crossword Answer definitions
SATYR noun- A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis.
- A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.
- (by extension) A lecherous man.
- Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
- The orangutan.
- A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis.
- A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.
- (by extension) A lecherous man.
- Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
- The orangutan.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SATYR
- Faun's cousin
- Nymph pursuer
- Woodland creature
- Brown-winged butterfly
- Mythical reveler
- Nymph chaser
- Lustful deity
- Debauchee of a sort
- Libertine
- Party animal
More clues leading to the result SWALLOWTAIL
More clues leading to the result EMPEROR
- Hadrian, for one
- "Return of the Jedi" villain, with "The"
- Streaker of stories
- Large penguin type
- Akihito, for one
- His new clothes were nonexistent
- Hirohito, e.g.
- Hans Christian Andersen's naked marcher
- Hirohito or Akihito
- Big moth
More clues leading to the result MONARCH
- Migrating butterfly
- Black-and-orange butterfly
- Queen Elizabeth II, e.g.
- Crowned head
- Large butterfly
- Sacramento WNBAer
- Sovereign
- Lepidopterist's quarry
- Absolute ruler
- Brightly colored butterfly
More clues leading to the result COMMA
- Punctuation mark
- Pause in a sentence
- Series separator
- One in 10,000?
- Sign between clauses
- It gives one pause
- Sentence separator
- List punctuation mark
- List separator
- Break for readers