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How did butterflies get their name?

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Need to find out how they got the name of butterfly. Thanks!

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  1. they got the name because they fly smoothly and slow... just like butter and they fly, the combining of it is butterfly


  2. Etymology: Middle English butterflie, from Old English buterflemacronoge, from butere butter + flemacronoge fly, perhaps from the belief that butterflies or witches in the shape of butterflies stole milk and butter -- more at BUTTER, FLY
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