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lacewing

Today it means: Any of a number of gauzy-winged insects of certain families within the order Neuroptera. Full definition →

translingual Neuroptera

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translingual · calque ofNeuroptera
English todaylacewing

From lace + wing. Possibly a calque of translingual Neuroptera.

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