wing case

noun

Examples of wing case in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert has a bone to pick with the Ohio Supreme Court over its ruling in a boneless chicken wing case. Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 15 Aug. 2024 End-Triassic sediments also contain an abundance of insect remains—pieces of legs, butterfly wing scales, and a lot of beetle wing cases. Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2023 This fly is a riot of strike triggers—the twin, pointy tails; the tapered, finely segmented, softly shiny abdomen; the fuzzy iridescent peacock herl thorax; the prominent hard wing case; the banded, wavy hackle fibers, and the bead itself. Field & Stream, 13 Oct. 2020 This oddball strategy seems to work for the jewel beetle (Sternocera aequisignata), a super-sparkly insect famous for the dazzling, emerald-toned wing case that adorns its exterior. Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2020 Birds were up to three times less likely to find worms in the iridescent wing cases than in the noniridescent ones, the team reports today in Current Biology. Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020 To find out, researchers filled nearly 900 jewel beetle wing cases, some naturally iridescent (above) and some painted with plain colors, with worms. Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020 Humans had trouble too: People in the park were up to six times less likely to find the iridescent wing cases than the plain ones—and the glossier the leaves, the harder the task. Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020 So too are the birds-head earrings and the gown embroidered with iridescent beetle-wing cases. Susan Delson, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018

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Word History

First Known Use

1661, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of wing case was in 1661

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