green lacewing

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   pale green unpleasant-smelling lacewing fly having carnivorous larvae

   Synonymschrysopidstink fly

   Broaderlacewing

   Narrowergoldeneye

   Part ofChrysopidae

Questions about green lacewing

What does green lacewing mean?

green lacewing means "pale green unpleasant-smelling lacewing fly having carnivorous larvae".

What is another word for green lacewing?

Close synonyms include chrysopid, stink 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 green lacewing a common word?

green 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.