Winged+insect

  • 121gall wasp — noun small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants • Syn: ↑gallfly, ↑cynipid wasp, ↑cynipid gall wasp • Hypernyms: ↑wasp • Member Holonyms: ↑Cynipidae, ↑family Cynipid …

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  • 122no-see-um — noun minute two winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects • Syn: ↑punkie, ↑punky, ↑punkey, ↑biting midge • Hypernyms: ↑gnat • Member Holonyms: ↑Ceratopogonidae, ↑ …

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  • 123psocid — noun small winged insect living on the bark and leaves of trees and feeding on e.g. fungi and decaying plant matter • Hypernyms: ↑psocopterous insect • Hyponyms: ↑bark louse, ↑bark louse • Member Holonyms: ↑Psocidae, ↑family Psocidae …

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  • 124stone fly — noun primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones • Syn: ↑stonefly, ↑plecopteran • Hypernyms: ↑insect • Member Holonyms: ↑Plecoptera, ↑orde …

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  • 125Corydalus cornutus — Hellgamite Hell ga*mite, Hellgramite Hell gra*mite, n. (Zo[ o]l.) The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect ({Corydalus cornutus}), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 126Hellgamite — Hell ga*mite, Hellgramite Hell gra*mite, n. (Zo[ o]l.) The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect ({Corydalus cornutus}), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 127Hellgramite — Hellgamite Hell ga*mite, Hellgramite Hell gra*mite, n. (Zo[ o]l.) The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect ({Corydalus cornutus}), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 128Pyralid — Pyr a*lid, n. [L. pyralis, idis, a kind of winged insect.] (Zo[ o]l.) Any moth of the family {Pyralid[ae]}. The species are numerous and mostly small, but some of them are very injurious, as the bee moth, meal moth, hop moth, and clover moth.… …

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