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Definition of Neuroptera
1. Noun. An order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Neuropteran, Neuropteron, Neuropterous Insect, Family Myrmeleontidae, Myrmeleontidae, Chrysopidae, Family Chrysopidae, Family Hemerobiidae, Hemerobiidae, Megaloptera, Suborder Megaloptera, Family Mantispidae, Mantispidae, Family Sisyridae, Sisyridae
Definition of Neuroptera
1. n. pl. An order of hexapod insects having two pairs of large, membranous, net-veined wings. The mouth organs are adapted for chewing. They feed upon other insects, and undergo a complete metamorphosis. The ant-lion, hellgamite, and lacewing fly are examples. Formerly, the name was given to a much more extensive group, including the true Neuroptera and the Pseudoneuroptera.
Medical Definition of Neuroptera
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Neuroptera
Literary usage of Neuroptera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"There remain then those of the old order neuroptera in which the perfect insect
has a biting mouth, two pairs of membranous wings with many veins, ..."
2. A Manual for the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"When the name neuroptera was first used it was applied to a much larger group of
... The order neuroptera as now restricted is represented in the United ..."
3. Field Book of Insects: With Special Reference to Those of Northeastern by Frank Eugene Lutz (1918)
"neuroptera, in a limited sense, are not only terrestrial but, in some cases,
inhabitants of the ... The following is a key to certain of the neuroptera. 1. ..."
4. Russian Central Asia: Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv by Henry Lansdell (1885)
"THE collection of neuroptera made by Fedchenko affords a tolerably well ...
The character of the Turkistan neuroptera, so far as we may judge from the ..."
5. Economic Entomology for the Farmer and the Fruit Grower, and for Use as a by John Bernhard Smith (1906)
"THE old term neuroptera comprised all insects with four more or less transparent
wings, reticulated or netted with numerous longitudinal and transverse ..."
6. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"Characteristics THE neuroptera form the last order of insects which undergo a of
the Neu-complete metamorphosis in the course ..."
7. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1894)
"A very large group, the caddis-flies, are sometimes separated from the neuroptera
and made into another order by themselves under the name of Tri- ..."
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