lacewing

lace·wing

L0007000 (lās′wĭng′)n. Any of various neuropteran insects of several families, especially Chrysopidae and Hemerobiidae, having predaceous larvae and, in the adult, two pairs of delicate, many-veined wings and long antennae.

lacewing

(ˈleɪsˌwɪŋ) n (Animals) any of various neuropterous insects, esp any of the families Chrysopidae (green lacewings) and Hemerobiidae (brown lacewings), having lacy wings and preying on aphids and similar pests

lace•wing

(ˈleɪsˌwɪŋ)

n. any of several slender green neuropteran insects of the family Chrysopidae, with transparent wings.

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lacewing - any of two families of insects with gauzy wings (Chrysopidae and Hemerobiidae); larvae feed on insect pests such as aphidslacewing flyneuropteran, neuropteron, neuropterous insect - insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veinschrysopid, green lacewing, stink fly - pale green unpleasant-smelling lacewing fly having carnivorous larvaebrown lacewing, hemerobiid, hemerobiid fly - small dark-colored lacewing fly