Usually means: Winged nut for easy hand-tightening.
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  1. butterfly nut: Merriam-Webster
  2. butterfly nut: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. butterfly nut: Collins English Dictionary
  4. butterfly nut: Vocabulary.com
  5. butterfly-nut: Wordnik
  6. butterfly nut: Wiktionary
  7. butterfly nut: Dictionary.com
  8. Butterfly nut: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. butterfly nut: Rhymezone
  10. butterfly nut: MyWord.info
  11. butterfly nut: FreeDictionary.org
  12. butterfly nut: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. butterfly nut: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. butterfly nut: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (butterfly nut)

▸ noun:  A nut with wing-like projections to provide leverage in turning with thumb and forefinger.

Similar:
wingnut, thumbnut, nutlet, nutpick, nutling, pair of nutcrackers, nut-head, nutsetter, nut driver, thumbscrew, more...

Opposite:
wing nut, hex nut, square nut

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Similar:
wingnut, thumbnut, nutlet, nutpick, nutling, pair of nutcrackers, nut-head, nutsetter, nut driver, thumbscrew, more...

Opposite:
wing nut, hex nut, square nut



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