Meanings of wing case in English

He darted forward and laid hold of the mantis' wing case like a bulldog.

When she landed she still had the gecko hanging grimly to her wing case.

To my astonishment I saw that they all had bright purple mouths, the rich, royal purple of a summer beetle's wing case.

What Anton's essay did was to synthesize and intellectualize the right- wing case against democracy and marshal it on behalf of the Republican party presidential nominee.

His dæmon, a large and iridescent green-backedbeetle, clicked her wing cases.

Now they could see the feathers and wing cases that made up its pelt.

I would admire the strong, ribbed wing cases, the bristly legs, the whole body with a faint olive green sheen.

It contains fragments of the wing cases of insects, and gives reactions similar to the bituminous mineral or substance found in Victoria.

The thorax is smooth, the wing cases large, folded under the body like a scarf and coming almost to the middle of the abdomen.

The word barnabee or burnabee, or, as Southey writes it, burnie-bee, no doubt has reference to the burnished or polished wing cases of the insect.

Its wing cases were erect, like a ladybird's about to fly, and the wings inside were beating so furiously that they were only a blur.