monarch, monarch butterfly, milkweed butterfly, Danaus plexippus
(noun) large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed
sovereign, crowned head, monarch
(noun) a nation’s ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
Source: WordNet® 3.1
monarch (plural monarches)
The ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.
The monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, and others of genus Danaus, found primarily in North America, so called because of the designs on its wings.
(Aboriginal English) A police officer.
(often capitalised) A stag which has sixteen or more points or tines on its antlers.
The chief or best thing of its kind.
• (ruler): autocrat, autocrator, big man, despot, dictator, Führer, potentate, sovereign, tyrant
• (ruler): emperor, empress, king, queen
• chroman, nomarch
Source: Wiktionary
Mon"arch, n. Etym: [F. monarque, L. monarcha, fr. Gr. Archi-.]
1. A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief. He who reigns Monarch in heaven, ... upheld by old repute. Milton.
2. One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest.
3. A patron deity or presiding genius. Come, thou, monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus. Shak.
4. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.
Mon"arch, a.
Definition: Superior to others; preëminent; supreme; ruling. "Monarch savage." Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
