lacewing

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/ˈleɪs.wɪŋ/ (UK)

Definition of lacewing

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noun

Any of a number of gauzy-winged insects of certain families within the order Neuroptera.

“We recently proposed a new genus of Thorny Lacewing (Insecta, Neuroptera, Rhachiberothidae) from the Eocene amber of France.”
“As an extinct clade, many species of the saucrosmylids were erected just based on a single fore- or hindwing, and it should be realized that providing more stable characters is necessary when describing new lacewing taxa just based on an isolated hindwing.”

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noun

Any of a number of gauzy-winged insects of certain families within the order Neuroptera.

“We recently proposed a new genus of Thorny Lacewing (Insecta, Neuroptera, Rhachiberothidae) from the Eocene amber of France.”
“As an extinct clade, many species of the saucrosmylids were erected just based on a single fore- or hindwing, and it should be realized that providing more stable characters is necessary when describing new lacewing taxa just based on an isolated hindwing.”
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cethosia (order Lepidoptera).

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From lace + wing. Possibly a calque of translingual Neuroptera.

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