Definitions
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
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Who are the main forewing policy advisors to Obama?
Hmm. Will It Be at the Victory Column? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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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.
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If you see them well they have a lovely and almost sparkling purple sheen, especially to the middle of the forewing.
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It opens them to reveal brown uppers with a patch of metallic purple on the forewing.
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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
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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
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Research is leaning toward this being the Black Swallowtail, for there is no tiger marking visible in the forewing.
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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.
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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.
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Adult moths have a black fringe on the tip of each forewing.
Chapter 10 1981
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