Pseudoneuroptera
Definition of Pseudoneuroptera
in some especially former classifications
: a division of insects having reticulate wings like those of the Neuroptera among which they have sometimes been included but undergoing an incomplete metamorphosis and including the dragonflies, mayflies, termites, psocids and book lice, bird lice, caddis flies, scorpion flies, stone flies, and others that are now placed in separate orders
pseudoneuropteran
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Origin and Etymology of pseudoneuroptera
New Latin, from pseud- + Neuroptera
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