zebra-swallowtailhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zebra-swallowtail_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezebra swallowtail, n.
Revised 2018

zebra swallowtailnoun

  1. 1855–
    A large swallowtail butterfly having white wings with black longitudinal stripes, Protographium marcellus, native to eastern North America.
    1. 1855
      Here is a very handsome kind, the Zebra Swallow-tail (Papilio Ajax).
      Home Friend vol. 2 220
    2. 1901
      The Tiger Swallowtail..the Zebra Swallowtail, the Cabbage butterfly..and the Clouded Sulphur..form a well-marked family.
      M. C. Dickerson, Moths & Butterflies iii. 248
    3. 2014
      An adult zebra swallowtail alights on a sugar maple seedling.
      R. Darke & D. Tallamy, Living Landscape i. 28 (caption)

Originally published as part of the entry for zebra, n.

zebra, n. was revised in June 2018.