Definitions
An insect with delicate veined wings, whose larvae often eat pests.
Word origin
From lace + wing. Possibly a calque of translingual Neuroptera.
Used in a sentence
“We recently proposed a new genus of Thorny Lacewing (Insecta, Neuroptera, Rhachiberothidae) from the Eocene amber of France.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Aphid eater”8 letters
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