Crossword-Solution: LACEWING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lacewing | n. | Any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus Chrysopa and allied genera. They have delicate, lacelike wings and brilliant eyes. Their larvae are useful in destroying aphids. Called also lace-winged fly, and goldeneyed fly. |
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| Antlion relative | 1 answer |
| Gauzy insect | 1 answer |
| APHID IN THE SUPERFAMILY APHIDOIDEA | 10 answers |
| Aphid | 19 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with LACEWING (4)
Such are the 'Ant-lions,' larvae of the exotic lacewing flies, which hunt small insects, digging a sandy pit for their unwary steps in the case of the best-known members of the group, some of which are found as far north as Paris.
Rocks of Triassic age have yielded beetles and lacewing-flies, while from among Jurassic fossils specimens have been described as representing most of our existing orders, including Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera and Diptera.
The pretty lacewing knows what an appetite her ever hungry larvæ will have, and so she protects them against each other.
Examples of such are to be seen in the grubs of may-flies, dragon-flies, lacewing-flies and ground-beetles (fig.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2005–2017).