Definition of neuropteras Neuropteras
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What does neuropteras mean?
Part of speech
🔤- neuropteras, noun, plural of neuroptera.
WordNet
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| neuroptera - an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies | ||
| order Neuroptera | ||
| animal order the order of animals | ||
| class hexapoda, class insecta, hexapoda, insecta insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species | ||
| neuropteran, neuropteron, neuropterous insect insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins | ||
| family myrmeleontidae, myrmeleontidae antlions | ||
| chrysopidae, family chrysopidae green lacewings | ||
| family hemerobiidae, hemerobiidae brown lacewings | ||
| megaloptera, suborder megaloptera in some classifications considered a separate order: alderflies; dobsonflies; snake flies | ||
| family mantispidae, mantispidae mantispids | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- neuroptera (n. pl.)
An order of hexapod insects having two pairs of large, membranous, net-veined wings. The mouth organs are adapted for chewing. They feed upon other insects, and undergo a complete metamorphosis. The ant-lion, hellgamite, and lacewing fly are examples. Formerly, the name was given to a much more extensive group, including the true Neuroptera and the Pseudoneuroptera.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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neuroptera
nū-rop′tėr-a, n.pl. an order of insects which have generally four wings marked with a network of many nerves:—sing. Neurop′teron; also Neurop′ter, Neurop′teran.—adjs. Neurop′teral, Neurop′terous, nerve-winged. [Gr. neuron, nerve, ptera, pl. of pteron, a wing.]
Part of speech
🔤- neuroptera, noun, singular of neuropteras / neuropterae.
