colour sergeant (English, noun)
expansion: colour sergeant (plural colour sergeants)
Senses:
glosses: A non-commissioned officer in some infantry regiments of the British army, equivalent in rank to a staff sergeant in most other armies. A colour sergeant ranks above a sergeant and below a warrant officer.
tags: British
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A nymphalid butterfly, Athyma nefte, of tropical Asia.
Forms:
form: colour sergeants
tags: plural