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from The Century Dictionary.
- A suborder of neuropterous insects, with nearly equal naked many-veined wings not folded in repose, well-developed jaws, and elongate many-jointed antennæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A suborder of Neuroptera, including those that have broad, flat wings, as the ant-lion, lacewing, etc. Called also
Planipennes .
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