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NEUROPTERON (neuroptera)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neuropteron mean? 

NEUROPTERON (noun)
  The noun NEUROPTERON has 1 sense:

1. insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veinsplay

  Familiarity information: NEUROPTERON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NEUROPTERON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

neuropteran; neuropteron; neuropterous insect

Hypernyms ("neuropteron" is a kind of...):

insect (small air-breathing arthropod)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neuropteron"):

ant lion; antlion; antlion fly (winged insect resembling a dragonfly; the larvae (doodlebugs) dig conical pits where they wait to catch e.g. ants)

lacewing; lacewing fly (any of two families of insects with gauzy wings (Chrysopidae and Hemerobiidae); larvae feed on insect pests such as aphids)

Corydalus cornutus; dobson; dobson fly; dobsonfly (large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait)

fish-fly; fish fly (similar to but smaller than the dobsonfly; larvae are used as fishing bait)

alder fly; alderfly; Sialis lutaria (dark-colored insect having predaceous aquatic larvae)

snakefly (predatory insect of western North America having a long necklike prothorax)

mantispid (insect that resembles a mantis; larvae are parasites in the nests of spiders and wasps)

spongefly; spongillafly (hairy-bodied insect whose larvae feed on freshwater sponges)

Holonyms ("neuropteron" is a member of...):

Neuroptera; order Neuroptera (an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies)


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