brown lacewing

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   small dark-colored lacewing fly

   Synonymshemerobiidhemerobiid fly

   Broaderlacewing

   Part ofHemerobiidae

Questions about brown lacewing

What does brown lacewing mean?

brown lacewing means "small dark-colored lacewing fly".

What is another word for brown lacewing?

Close synonyms include hemerobiid, hemerobiid fly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brown lacewing a common word?

brown lacewing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.