lacewing

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lacewing

/ˈleɪs.wɪŋ/ UK, US

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From lace + wing. Possibly a calque of translingual Neuroptera.

noun lacewings

Any of a number of gauzy-winged insects of certain families within the order Neuroptera. We recently proposed a new genus of Thorny Lacewing (Insecta, Neuroptera, Rhachiberothidae) from the Eocene amber of France.
Similar: lacewing fly
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cethosia (order Lepidoptera).

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noun Neuroptera

Русский	сетчатокрылое setčatokryloje

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@misc{lacewing_2026,
  title = {lacewing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lacewing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}