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| Butterfree: combination of BUTTERFLY and FREE. Thus, a butterfly that flies freely, as all butterflies should. |
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| Poke-DEX |
| 10.Caterpie 11.Metapod 12.Butterfree |
| Caterpie: shortening of CATERPILLAR, which Caterpie resembles |
| Metapod: from METAMORPHOSIS and POD. Metapod resembles the pod, chrysalis, or cocoon, within which many insects in nature undergo metamorphosis from crawling bugs into flying bugs. The evolution of Caterpie to Metapod to Butterfree closely mirrors the metamorphosis in nature of caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. |
| Caterpie Number: 10 Type: Bug Species: Worm Height: 1' 0'' Weight: 6 lbs. |
| Metapod Number: 11 Type: Bug Species: Cocoon Height: 2' 4'' Weight: 22 lbs |
| Butterfree Number: 12 Type: Bug/Flying Species: Butterfree Height: 3' 7'' Weight: 71 lbs. |
| 10- Caterpie - - - - - - - - - - - - |
| 11- Metapod - - 7 - - - - - - - - - |
| 12- Butterfree - - - 10 13 14 15 18 23 28 34 40 |
Attack Tackle String Shot Harden Confusion Poison Powder Stun Spore Sleep Powder Supersonic Whirlwind Gust Psybeam Safeguard |
Type Normal Bug Normal Psychic Poison Grass Grass Normal Normal Flying Psychic Normal |
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