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Lacewing

//ˈleɪs.wɪŋ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    any of two families of insects with gauzy wings (Chrysopidae and Hemerobiidae); larvae feed on insect pests such as aphids wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cethosia (order Lepidoptera).

Etymology

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

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