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noun
- a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign: the viceroy of India.
- a brightly marked American butterfly, Limenitis archippus, closely mimicking the monarch butterfly in coloration.
noun
- a governor of a colony, country, or province who acts for and rules in the name of his sovereign or governmentRelated adjective: viceregal
person ruling as representative of a sovereign, 1520s, from Middle French vice-roy, from Old French vice- “deputy” (see vice-) + roi “king,” from Latin regem (nominative rex); see rex. The species of American butterfly so called from 1881.