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How to pronounce forewing in English?

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Synonyms fore-wing, fore wing
Type of wing

Examples of forewing

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The Meadow Brown is orange and brown with a black eyespot on the tip of the forewing.
From the telegraph.co.uk
It opens them to reveal brown uppers with a patch of metallic purple on the forewing.
From the guardian.co.uk
The Hebrew character is named from a dark hieroglyph on its forewing.
From the guardian.co.uk
Each forewing has a conspicuous unbroken metallic silver Y-marking.
From the telegraph.co.uk
They produce the noise by rubbing a toothed vein on one forewing with a pluck on the other.
From the time.com
The potential latitudinal influences on forewing size were completely ignored in this study.
From the nature.com
No spot of costa above mid-cell on the underside of the forewing.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The hind underwing has a mottled, camouflage pattern, while the hind forewing has a distinctive white mark.
From the telegraph.co.uk
They say earlier lift calculations were skewed by misconceptions about the way this forewing moved.
From the newscientist.com
More examples
  • Either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings
  • Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly. They are found on the second and third thoracic segments (the mesothorax and metathorax), and the two pairs are often referred to as the forewings and hindwings, respectively, though a few insects lack ...
  • Alternative spelling of fore wing
  • (Forewings) Butterflies have two sets of wings, and the forewings are those found closest to the head.
  • The anterior wing, closer to the anterior (head) end of the adult.
  • A wing arising from the mesothorax, the middle thoracic segment. In Orthoptera, including crickets and katydids, the forewings are usually leathery and are often called tegmina (singular, tegmen).
  • Either of the anterior wings, borne on the mesothorax.