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fore⋅wing

[fawr-wing, fohr-]
–noun
either of the anterior and usually smaller pair of wings of an insect having four wings.

Origin:
1885–90; fore- + wing
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fore-wing

noun
either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings [syn: forewing
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