hindwing

See also: hind wing

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *hinder

Old English hindan

Middle English hinde

English hind

English wing

English hindwing

From hind + wing.

Noun

hindwing (plural hindwings)

1. Alternative spelling of hind wing.
   • 1890, George Frederick Leycester Marshall, Lionel de Nicéville, The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon:

     the Amblypodia group presents a more or less elongated form of hindwing with some variety in the shape and caudation ;

   • 2001, Oliver Schäffler et al, Butterflies of the World: Papilionidae. - 6:

     the hindwings are a little narrower and longer the light maculation of the upperside of the forewing is markedly reduced and the cellspot only faintly suggested.

   • 2015 October 21, “Familial Clarification of Saucrosmylidae stat. nov. and New Saucrosmylids from Daohugou, China (Insecta, Neuroptera)”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     As an extinct clade, many species of the saucrosmylids were erected just based on a single fore- or hindwing, and it should be realized that providing more stable characters is necessary when describing new lacewing taxa just based on an isolated hindwing.