dilarid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any insect of the pleasing lacewing family, Dilaridae.
Example Sentences
- "In the laboratory, however, larval dilarids have been reared on a variety of disabled, sofy-bodied insect prey (MacLeod and Spiegler 1961)."
- "Given the abundance of Early Cretaceous records for other families in the dilarid clade as well as the basal phylogenetic position of pleasing lacewings within this lineage, the dilarids are presumably rather ancient, perhaps relict today."
- "The adult morphological data suggest that these events were followed by the separation of two lineages—one that includes the Coniopterygidae + the dilarid-like families and another encompassing the remainder of the hemerobiiform families and another encompassing the remainder of the hemerobiiform families + the Myrmeleontiformia."