LANTERN FLY


Meaning of LANTERN FLY in English

noun

: any of certain usually large and brightly colored insects that are chiefly of the genera Laternaria and Fulgora of the family Fulgoridae and that have the front of the head prolonged into a large hollow vesicle formerly supposed to be luminous ; broadly : an insect of the superfamily Fulgoroidea

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