noun
small dark-colored lacewing fly
• Syn: ↑brown lacewing, ↑hemerobiid fly
• Hypernyms: ↑lacewing, ↑lacewing fly
• Member Holonyms: ↑Hemerobiidae, ↑family Hemerobiidae
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I. \\|hemərō|bīə̇d\ adjectiveEtymology: New Latin Hemerobiidae, family of flies, from Hemerobius, type genus + -idae
: of or relating to the genus Hemerobius or the family Hemerbiidae
II. noun
(-s)
: a hemerobiid fly
Useful english dictionary. 2012.