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noun Entomology.

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Also called wing cover.

Origin of wing case

First recorded in 1655–65

Words nearby wing case

wing bar, wing beat, wing bit, wing bolt, wing bow, wing case, wing chair, wing collar, wing commander, wing covert, wing dam

How to use wing case in a sentence

Certain features of its history suggest why this may be the case.
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And, in the case of fluoride, at least, that doubt might actually be justified.
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To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
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Her latest book, Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation, will be published in April by HarperCollins.
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Their friendship began when Krauss, who was chairman of the physics department at Case Western in Cleveland, sought out Epstein.
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The case was an assault and battery that came off between two men named Brown and Henderson.
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In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.
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Done, says he, why let fifty of our men advance, and flank them on each wing.
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Sometimes in the case of large plants, cones have been known to occur on the tips of the branches of the Marsh Horsetail.
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As a rule, however, even in the case of extreme varieties, a careful examination of the specimen will enable it to be identified.
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British Dictionary definitions for wing case

wing-case

noun

the nontechnical name for elytron

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