The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word BRIMSTONE
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More clues leading to the result BRIMSTONE
- Butterfly is absolutely filled with colour
- Nearly run over brownish-grey butterfly
- Butterfly is full colour
- Butterfly practically overflows with colour
- Disturbing sermon with bit concerning one of hell’s torments
- Border’s attitude? It’s something fiery
- Steamed with fire
- Sulphur once providing lips with hue
- One of 18 having weight on the borderline
- Butterfly fluttering on timbers
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The straight part
We know that "butterfly" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case butterfly = brimstone.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BRIMSTONE mean?
BRIMSTONE noun- The sulfur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
- Sulfur.
- A whore.
- Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
- The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.