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Definition of neuropteran in English: neuropterannoun njʊˈrɒpt(ə)rənnjʊəˈrɒpt(ə)rənn(y)o͝oˈräptərən Entomology A predatory flying insect of the order Neuroptera, such as a lacewing or alderfly. Example sentencesExamples - Because of this, some neuropterans have been successfully used in the biological control of crop pests.
- The life cycle of neuropterans includes four very distinct stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
- Shelob could well belong to a neotenic neuropteran species in which cocoon-spinning ability has been directed towards prey capture.
- Zygopterans and tabanids were absent, and coleopterans, neuropterans, trichopterans, hemipterans (true bugs), and anisopterans were rare.
- The first neuropterans are believed to have appeared during the Permian, almost 300 million years ago.
adjective njʊˈrɒpt(ə)rənnjʊəˈrɒpt(ə)rənn(y)o͝oˈräptərən Entomology Relating to or denoting neuropterans. Example sentencesExamples - These have been neglected in studies on neuropteran anatomy, and many aspects of their biology are likewise obscure.
- There are two different kinds of neuropteran eye, with and without distal rhabdomeres, which can be expected on anatomical grounds to function differently.
Derivativesadjective Entomology Biological control of aphids using neuropterous insect (Chrysopa nipponensis Okamoto) larvae was investigated. Example sentencesExamples - Snyder reported a strange neuropterous larva which he found in a termite colony at Falls Church, Va., in 1918.
- Up to the moment when the first garden has been made and planted and the first eggs are laid, the two insects, the king and queen, ordinary four-winged neuropterous insects, have been busy building their home, laying eggs like thousands of other insects around them.
- Silence governs the narrow streets of this incredible wooden city split into whole regions of beetles and butterflies, districts of orthoptera and neuropterous insects, boulevards of beetles, streets of leaves and shield-bearer lice.
- Research Emphases are: geological record of neuropterous insects, integration of fossil and living taxa into combined phylogenetic analyses.
Definition of neuropteran in US English: neuropterannounn(y)o͝oˈräptərən Entomology A predatory flying insect of the order Neuroptera, such as a lacewing or alderfly. Example sentencesExamples - The life cycle of neuropterans includes four very distinct stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
- Because of this, some neuropterans have been successfully used in the biological control of crop pests.
- Zygopterans and tabanids were absent, and coleopterans, neuropterans, trichopterans, hemipterans (true bugs), and anisopterans were rare.
- The first neuropterans are believed to have appeared during the Permian, almost 300 million years ago.
- Shelob could well belong to a neotenic neuropteran species in which cocoon-spinning ability has been directed towards prey capture.
adjectiven(y)o͝oˈräptərən Entomology Relating to or denoting neuropterans. Example sentencesExamples - These have been neglected in studies on neuropteran anatomy, and many aspects of their biology are likewise obscure.
- There are two different kinds of neuropteran eye, with and without distal rhabdomeres, which can be expected on anatomical grounds to function differently.
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