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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
purple emperor

▶noun a large woodland butterfly that has iridescent purplish-black wings with white markings. [Apatura iris.]

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
emperor/ˈempərə(r)/

▶noun

1 the ruler of an empire.

2 in names of certain large, strikingly marked butterflies, e.g. purple emperor.

– derivatives
emperorship noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. emperere, from L. imperator ‘military commander’, from imperare ‘to command’.

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