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FAMILY HEMEROBIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Hemerobiidae mean? 

FAMILY HEMEROBIIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY HEMEROBIIDAE has 1 sense:

1. brown lacewingsplay

  Familiarity information: FAMILY HEMEROBIIDAE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FAMILY HEMEROBIIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Brown lacewings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Hemerobiidae; Hemerobiidae

Hypernyms ("family Hemerobiidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Hemerobiidae"):

aphid lion; aphis lion (carnivorous larva of lacewing flies)

brown lacewing; hemerobiid; hemerobiid fly (small dark-colored lacewing fly)

Holonyms ("family Hemerobiidae" is a member of...):

Neuroptera; order Neuroptera (an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies)


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