Word Meanings - DERMOPTERAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig.

Related words: (words related to DERMOPTERAN)

• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• FLIGHTER
  A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• FLIGHTINESS
  The state or quality of being flighty. The flightness of her temper. Hawthorne. Syn. -- Levity; giddiness; volatility; lightness; wildness; eccentricity. See Levity.
• FLIGHTY
  1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak. 2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and
• INSECTION
  A cutting in; incisure; incision.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• INSECTATION
  The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. Sir T. More.
• FLIGHTILY
  In a flighty manner.
• INSECTOLOGER
  An entomologist.
• INSECTIVORA
  1. An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects. Note: They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order
• INSECTIVOROUS
  Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: to
• INSECTILE
  Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects. Bacon.
• FLIGHTED
  Feathered; -- said of arrows. (more info) 1. Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition. "Drowsy-flighted steeds." Milton.
• FLIGHT-SHOT
  The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile. Within a flight-shot it inthe valley. Evelyn. Half a flight-shot from the king's oak. Sir W. Scott.
• CORIACEOUS
  Stiff, like leather or parchment. (more info) 1. Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough.
• INSECTARY
  A place for keeping living insects. -- In`sec*ta"ri*um, n. Etym:
• INSECT
  1. Of or pertaining to an insect or insects. 2. Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
• INSECTED
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or resembling, an insect. Howell.
• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• RATTLEWINGS
  The golden-eye.