Word Meanings - NEUROPTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the Neuroptera.

NEUROPTERA
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
NEUROPTERAL
Of or pertaining to the Neuroptera.
NEUROPTERAN
A neuropter.
PSEUDONEUROPTERA
division of insects reticulated wings, as in the Neuroptera, but having an active pupa state. It includes the dragon flies, May flies, white ants, etc. By some zoölogists they are classed with the Orthoptera; by others, with the Neuroptera.