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thorny lacewing

thorny lacewing noun: any insect of the family Rhachiberothidae.

Noun

thorny lacewing (plural thorny lacewings)

  1. Any insect of the family Rhachiberothidae.
    • We recently proposed a new genus of Thorny Lacewing (Insecta, Neuroptera, Rhachiberothidae) from the Eocene amber of France.2005, Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, volume 110, page 128
    • The family Rachiberothidae has been of considerable controversy and has been considered at different times during its history as a subfamily of Berothidae (Tjeder, 1959), or even of Mantispidae (Willmann, 1990b, 1004b). The "thorny lacewings" generally resemble other berothids except in the...2005, David Grimaldi, Evolution of the Insects, page 356

Forms of thorny lacewing

pluralthorny lacewings

Questions about thorny lacewing

What does thorny lacewing mean?
Thorny lacewing means any insect of the family Rhachiberothidae.
What part of speech is thorny lacewing?
Thorny lacewing is a noun.
What is the plural of thorny lacewing?
The plural of thorny lacewing is thorny lacewings.

Words near thorny lacewing in the dictionary

  1. thorny broom
  2. thorny brooms
  3. thorny burnet
  4. thorny devil
  5. thorny devils
  6. thorny lacewing
  7. thorny lacewings
  8. thorny oyster
  9. thorny oysters
  10. thorny worm
  11. thorny worms

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