Lanternfly

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  lanternfly \lanternfly\, lantern fly \lantern fly\n. (Zool.)
     any one of several species of large, handsome, brightly
     marked, tropical hemipterous insects of the genera
     {Laternaria}, {Fulgora}, and allies, of the family
     {Fulgorid[ae]}. The largest species is {Laternaria
     phosphorea} of Brazil. The head has a snoutlike process in


     some species which was formerly thought to emit a
     phosphorescent light.
     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lantern-fly
       n : large brightly marked tropical insect with a process like a
           snout that was formerly thought to emit light [syn: {lantern
           fly}]