forewings in English

noun
1
either of the two front wings of a four-winged insect.
They have tracked monarchs with radar, subjected them to magnets and jet lag in experiments, and affixed millions of tiny tags to the insects' forewings in hopes of recovering them and learning their routes.
noun
    fore wing
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1. Adults are mostly white with almost entirely white forewings.

2. Male: The ground colour of the forewings is black.

3. Beetles' forewings are hardened into sheath like protective coverings called …

4. The length of the forewings is about 15.5 mm Species page at Tree of Life project

5. Males are less colorful, with smaller eyespots and much reduced orange areas on the upper forewings.

6. The Cinnabar is slate-black with two red spots and two pinky-red stripes on the rounded forewings

7. The Bogbean Buckmoth is a medium to large-sized moth with forewings about 26 to 36 millimetres long

8. Long bristles on the forewings are synapomorphic with the Chaetopterygini, but female genitalic structure suggests affinity with the Limnephilini.

9. It is similar to Mapsidius auspicata, but is larger and the black marks on the forewings are more distinct and angulated.

10. Cricket definition is - any of a family (Gryllidae) of leaping orthopteran insects noted for the chirping notes produced by the male by rubbing together specially modified parts of the forewings

11. Synonyms: Backswimmer; Notonecta undulata Hypernyms ("Backswimmer" is a kind of): bug; hemipteran; hemipteron; hemipterous insect (insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis)

12. Bug definition is - any of an order (Hemiptera and especially its suborder Heteroptera) of insects (such as an assassin Bug or chinch Bug) that have sucking mouthparts, forewings thickened at the base, and incomplete metamorphosis and are often economic pests —called also true Bug

13. Bisinuate-with two incisions Carinate-keeled or having raised lines Convex-curved or rounded outward Elytra-the forewings of beetles Frons-the upper anterior portion of the head capsule, usually a distinct sclerite (any plate on the body wall) between the epicranium (upper part of the head) and clypeus (part of head below the frons)

14. Spring Cankerworm (Paleacrita vernata) Smaller than the fall Cankerworm at about 3/4 inch long when fully grown, the adult male moth can be identified by his silky forewings, which have loosely attached brownish scales and three diagonal dark lines, pale gray hindwings with a dusky distal spot, and a dirty white or mottled brown head.

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