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thorny lacewings

thorny lacewings is the plural of thorny lacewing.

Meaning of thorny lacewing

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

Questions about thorny lacewings

What is thorny lacewings the plural of?
Thorny lacewings is the plural of thorny lacewing.

Words near thorny lacewings in the dictionary

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

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