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单词 neuropter
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neuroptern.

Brit. /njᵿˈrɒptə/, /njʊəˈrɒptə/, U.S. /n(j)ʊˈrɑptər/
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: Neuroptera n.
Etymology: < Neuroptera n. Compare French neuroptère (1754, adjective and noun), névroptère (1764).
Entomology. Now rare.
An insect of the order Neuroptera; a neuropteran.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > division Endopterygota or Metabola (winged) > [noun] > order Neuroptera > member of
white ant1625
neuropter1828
neuropteran1842
neuropteroid1901
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) The neuropters are an order of insects having four membranous, transparent, naked wings, reticulated with veins.
1867 Amer. Naturalist 1 312 He seeks for a true neuropter in the white ant before him.
1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man vi. 137 Any modern Neuropter, a group of insects remarkable even in the present world for their large and complex organs of vision.
1895 Amer. Naturalist 29 572 Certain other species keep, in the adult form, a larval characteristic, being furnished with respiratory plates on the sides of the abdomen, comparable to those of the larvæ of modern Neuropters.
1989 Jrnl. Compar. Physiol. A. 165 789 Photoreconvertible fluorophore systems were found in the superposition compound eyes of the moth Deilephila and the neuropter Ascalaphus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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