moth lacewing
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He was also a great collector of the Moth-Lacewings, and the Silky-Lacewings, one of which, a small and delicate species, Psychopsella gallardi, was named in honour of him."
- "Moth lacewings, family Ithonidae, are dull-coloured and resemble moths; they have mass flights at dusk in summer and autumn."
- "Cheeseweed moth lacewing (Oliarces clara) is a federal sensitive species."
- "The most significant aspects of this work were (a) placement of Ithonidae (moth lacewings) not as the closest relative of remaining neuropterans but rather in a more derived position closer to Myrmeleontiformia and (b) the placement of Nevrorthidae, instead, as the earliest-branching family."
Inflected Forms
moth lacewings (plural)
moth-lacewing (alternative)