wing case

1. 1.

   either of the horny front wings in beetles and some other insects which cover and protect the functional hind wings

   Synonymselytron

   Broaderwing

Questions about wing case

What does wing case mean?

wing case means "either of the horny front wings in beetles and some other insects which cover and protect the functional hind wings".

What is another word for wing case?

Close synonyms include elytron. 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 wing case a common word?

wing case is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.