Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A family of net-veined neuropterous insects having a slender body with a small quadrate prothorax and gauzy wings; the lace-winged flies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A natural family of insects including the brown lacewings.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun brown lacewings
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