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Definition of Clearwings
1. clearwing [n] - See also: clearwing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clearwings
Literary usage of Clearwings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Animal Coloration: An Account of the Principal Facts and Theories Relating by Frank Evers Beddard (1892)
"In this country there are a number of moths—popularly termed clearwings—which
would be taken by the uninitiated for wasps and flies. ..."
2. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1902)
"It is, however, not the place here to enter into the synonymy of the " clearwings/'
One can only- express regret that Scopoli did not name his four sections ..."
3. Guide to Methods of Insect Life and Prevention and Remedy of Insect Ravage by Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1884)
"There is one family amongst these known as the clearwings, which differ from
other Moths in ... The caterpillars of the clearwings are white fleshy grubs, ..."
4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1874)
"The moths known to entomologists as the clearwings form a very singular family.
... These clearwings have an artful trick of suddenly dropping and not Dying ..."
5. Transactions by Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1870)
"Porcellus will pair occasionally but not readily, and probably almost all this
group, including the clearwings and ..."
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