"green lacewing" meaning in English

See green lacewing in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: green lacewings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} green lacewing (plural green lacewings)
  1. Any insect of the family Chrysopidae, a chrysopid. Categories (lifeform): Neuropterans Synonyms (insect of family Chysopidae): chrysopid, lacewing [broadly] Hyponyms: aphid lion, aphidlion, aphid wolf (english: larva of green lacewing) Derived forms: common green lacewing Related terms: brown lacewing (english: Hemerobiidae)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for green lacewing meaning in English (2.3kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "green lacewings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "green lacewing (plural green lacewings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Neuropterans",
          "orig": "en:Neuropterans",
          "parents": [
            "Insects",
            "Arthropods",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "common green lacewing"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Laurie Carlson, Green Thumbs: A Kid's Activity Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Gardening, page 55",
          "text": "Green lacewings eat red spiders, aphids, mealy bugs, thrips, scale, and more.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Whitney Cranshaw, Pests of the West: Prevention and Control for Today's Garden and Small Farm, page 24",
          "text": "Several species of green lacewings are native to this region, all general predators that feed on a wide variety of insect pests.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2007, M. Canard, Natural Food and Feeding Habits of Lacewings, P. K. McEwen, T. R. New, A. E. Whittington (editors), Lacewings in the Crop Environment, page 120,\nMost adult green lacewings have a glycophagous diet."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any insect of the family Chrysopidae, a chrysopid."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "aphid lion"
        },
        {
          "word": "aphidlion"
        },
        {
          "english": "larva of green lacewing",
          "word": "aphid wolf"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-green_lacewing-en-noun-4Lsme3yk",
      "links": [
        [
          "Chrysopidae",
          "Chrysopidae#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "chrysopid",
          "chrysopid"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "english": "Hemerobiidae",
          "word": "brown lacewing"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "insect of family Chysopidae",
          "word": "chrysopid"
        },
        {
          "sense": "insect of family Chysopidae",
          "tags": [
            "broadly"
          ],
          "word": "lacewing"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "green lacewing"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "common green lacewing"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "green lacewings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "green lacewing (plural green lacewings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "word": "aphid lion"
    },
    {
      "word": "aphidlion"
    },
    {
      "english": "larva of green lacewing",
      "word": "aphid wolf"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "Hemerobiidae",
      "word": "brown lacewing"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Neuropterans"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Laurie Carlson, Green Thumbs: A Kid's Activity Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Gardening, page 55",
          "text": "Green lacewings eat red spiders, aphids, mealy bugs, thrips, scale, and more.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Whitney Cranshaw, Pests of the West: Prevention and Control for Today's Garden and Small Farm, page 24",
          "text": "Several species of green lacewings are native to this region, all general predators that feed on a wide variety of insect pests.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2007, M. Canard, Natural Food and Feeding Habits of Lacewings, P. K. McEwen, T. R. New, A. E. Whittington (editors), Lacewings in the Crop Environment, page 120,\nMost adult green lacewings have a glycophagous diet."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any insect of the family Chrysopidae, a chrysopid."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Chrysopidae",
          "Chrysopidae#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "chrysopid",
          "chrysopid"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "insect of family Chysopidae",
      "word": "chrysopid"
    },
    {
      "sense": "insect of family Chysopidae",
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ],
      "word": "lacewing"
    }
  ],
  "word": "green lacewing"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.