psychopsid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any insect of the silky lacewing family, Psychopsidae.
Example Sentences
- "Some of the Australian specimens are classified with the psychopsids (family Psychopsidae), an alder fly group occurring solely in Australia, where it is known as the silky lace-wing due to the brilliantly colored wings and the long, silky hair."
- "As will be repeatedly seen in many Neuroptera families, psychopsids had a wider distribution during the Mesozoic and Tertiary."
- "While many fossil psychopsids were recorded from the Mesozoic, few representatives have been described from the Tertiary."