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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Either of a pair of anterior wings of a four-winged insect.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of fore wing.

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  • noun either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings

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Examples

  • Who are the main forewing policy advisors to Obama?

    Hmm. Will It Be at the Victory Column? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • There are eight varieties of ermine moth that live in the UK, with the bird-cherry, with five rows of black dots on the forewing being the most common, particularly in the north.

    Specieswatch: Bird-cherry ermine moth 2011

  • If you see them well they have a lovely and almost sparkling purple sheen, especially to the middle of the forewing.

    Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk 2011

  • It opens them to reveal brown uppers with a patch of metallic purple on the forewing.

    Country diary: Fermyn Wood, Northamptonshire 2011

  • Many moths are christened only in Latin, but the lovely vernacular names, Joe said, date from the seventeenth century: one species that flocked to our trap that night was the relatively common setaceous hebrew character, so named to denote the hieroglyphic on its forewing.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Many moths are christened only in Latin, but the lovely vernacular names, Joe said, date from the seventeenth century: one species that flocked to our trap that night was the relatively common setaceous hebrew character, so named to denote the hieroglyphic on its forewing.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Research is leaning toward this being the Black Swallowtail, for there is no tiger marking visible in the forewing.

    Plant It And They Will Come « Fairegarden 2008

  • While waiting for the wings to stop fluttering so a suitable portrait could be taken of this female Eastern Swallowtail in dark form, or it could be a Black Swallowtail since that is the caterpillar we have seen around lately, it was noticed that the hind wing was stationary in spite of the moving forewing.

    Plant It And They Will Come « Fairegarden 2008

  • I mean, if we ever get a machine that small, we're never going to be able to tell the difference between it and the pills I pop on a daily basis to quell my headache, aide my sleep, lube my joints, and put the schwing back in my forewing.

    The Speculist: Cyborgs 2005

  • Adult moths have a black fringe on the tip of each forewing.

    Chapter 10 1981

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