neuropterousadj.
/njᵿˈrɒpt(ə)rəs/, /njʊəˈrɒpt(ə)rəs/, U.S. /n(j)ʊˈrɑptərəs/ Entomology.
Of, relating to, belonging to, or designating the order Neuroptera.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > division Endopterygota or Metabola (winged) > [adjective] > of member of Endopterygota or Metabola > belonging or related to Neuroptera
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1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 201 Neuropterous insects..have four membranaceous, transparent, naked wings.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xx. 351 I am speaking here of the Neuropterous Order.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vi. 209 Neuropterous flies of the genus perlidæ.
1884 Amer. Naturalist 18 194 Dr. Packard concludes that Palæocampa..may be regarded as the hairy larva of some carboniferous neuropterous insect allied to the Panorpidæ.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 533/1 Alder-fly, the name given to neuropterous insects of the family Sialidae.
1981 Nature 5 Feb. 506/1 (title) A neuropterous larva uses an allomone to attack termites.
1993 Jrnl. N.Y. Entomol. Soc. 101 143 This structure is not a homologue of the ‘parameres’..of other neuropterous families.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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