brown lacewing

Questions about brown lacewing

What is another word for brown lacewing?

It depends which brown lacewing you mean. In the sense “small dark-colored lacewing fly”, the synonyms are hemerobiid, hemerobiid fly. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of brown lacewing?

WordNet records no antonym for brown lacewing. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for brown lacewing come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of brown lacewing

• Full entry for brown lacewingAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for brown lacewingWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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