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neuropteran
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun neuropteran has 1 sense
- neuropteran(n = noun.animal) neuropteron, neuropterous insect - insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins; Array is a kind of insect
is a member of neuroptera, order neuroptera
has particulars: ant lion, antlion, antlion fly, lacewing, lacewing fly, corydalus cornutus, dobson, dobson fly, dobsonfly, fish fly, fish-fly, alder fly, alderfly, sialis lutaria, snakefly, mantispid, spongefly, spongillafly
OXFORD DICTIONARY
neuropteran, n. any insect of the order Neuroptera, including lacewings, having four finely-veined membranous leaflike wings.
Derivative
neuropterous adj.
Etymology
NEURO- + Gk pteron wing
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