lacewing meaning

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Noun: lacewing  'leys`wing
  1. Any of two families of insects with gauzy wings (Chrysopidae and Hemerobiidae); larvae feed on insect pests such as aphids
    - lacewing fly

Derived forms: lacewings

Type of: neuropteran, neuropteron, neuropterous insect

Encyclopedia: Lacewing

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  1. there were ants, lacewings, ladybirds, and beetles
  2. gillyweed may be innocuous, but boomslang skin, lacewing flies
  3. gillyweed may be innocuous, but boomslang skin, lacewing flies?
  4. one possibility is that pre-prepared potion ingredients can be bought on the open market, for example, pre-stewed lacewing flies
  5. at present, the mainly studying of foraging behavioural ecology is about ladybird and lacewing, and less about aphidophagous hoverfly

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