缨翅

纓翅
yīngchì
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 fringed wing (wing with long hairs along the margin, as in thrips)

Examples

Jìmǎ de yīngchì yóu yī tiáo zhǎi chìmó hé sìzhōu de chángmáo zǔchéng.
A thrips's fringed wing consists of a narrow wing membrane and long hairs around its edges.
Yīngchì shì yīngchìmù kūnchóng zuì xiǎnzhù de xíngtài tèzhēng.
The fringed wing is the most distinctive morphological feature of thrips.

Tips

usage
('tassel') + ('wing') names wings that look tasseled. In entomology texts it appears mostly as a modifier of (缨翅目 = Thysanoptera) or as a free description of thrips and some parasitic wasps.

Stroke Order

yīng
chì