[
US
/ˈfɔɹˌwɪŋ/
]
NOUN
- either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings
How To Use forewing In A Sentence
- 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.
- The forewings of the live moths were sprayed with a thin layer of spray glue and then coated with UV-reflecting or UV-absorbing powder.
- For example, the cells that will form the adult left foreleg are physically separated from cells that will form the left forewing, the left midleg, or the right foreleg.
- The feathers fan out from the forewing into a gently rounded profile, while the forewing itself rises into an arching swell.
- However, splitting of the forewings along the cubitus posterior vein may take place.
- Who are the main forewing policy advisors to Obama? Hmm. Will It Be at the Victory Column? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
- Apparent in flight, the speculum, or wing-patch, is dark iridescent-green, looking black at times, with white on the forewing.
- Despite their dandy looks, the charaxes are the gladiators of the butterfly world, with serrated forewings that they use to bully other butterflies off a deliciously rotten piece of fruit or fresh carnivore dung.
- Crickets and katydids make noise by rubbing their forewings together.
- the Common Blue has two significant spots on the underside of the forewing, where the Brown Argus has just one.