Word Meanings - CLEARWING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A lepidop terous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Ægeriadæ, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.

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• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• PEACHY
  Resembling a peach or peaches.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• CURRANT
  A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. Black currant,a shrub or bush and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit. -- Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant,
• PEACHER
  One who peaches. Foxe.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• INSECTION
  A cutting in; incisure; incision.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• EXAMPLESS
  Exampleless. B. Jonson.
• LEPIDOPTER
  One of the Lepidoptera.
• INSECTATION
  The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. Sir T. More.
• PEACHBLOW
  Of the delicate purplish pink color likened to that of peach blooms; -- applied esp. to a Chinese porcelain, small specimens of which bring great prices in the Western countries.
• INSECTOLOGER
  An entomologist.
• INSECTIVORA
  1. An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects. Note: They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order
• INSECTIVOROUS
  Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: to
• PEACH
  A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it . In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible. Guinea, or Sierra Leone, peach, the large edible berry
• PEACH-COLORED
  Of the color of a peach blossom. "Peach-colored satin." Shak.
• INSECTILE
  Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects. Bacon.
• LEPIDOPTERA
  An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored. Note: They have a tubular proboscis, or haustellum, formed by the two slender maxillæ.
• ZANTE CURRANT
  A kind of seedless grape or raisin; -- so called from Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.
• TETTEROUS
  Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter.
• APPEACHMENT
  Accusation.
• MACROPTEROUS
  Having long wings.
• ANENTEROUS
  Destitute of a stomach or an intestine. Owen.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• TRICHOPTEROUS
  Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the Trichoptera.
• SESQUIALTEROUS
  Sesquialteral.
• IMPEACH
  To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper. Note: When used in law with reference to a witness, the term signifies, to discredit, to show or prove unreliable or unworthy of belief; when
• HEMIPTERAL; HEMIPTEROUS
  Of or pertaining to the Hemiptera.
• BRACHYPTEROUS
  Having short wings.
• DEXTEROUSNESS
  The quality of being dexterous; dexterity.
• DEPEACH
  To discharge. As soon as the party . . . before our justices shall be depeached. Hakluyt.