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forewing

[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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forewing (ˈfɔːˌwɪŋ)

—n
	either wing of the anterior pair of an insect's two pairs of wings

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