Definitions for wing-case

wing-case wing case

Wing-Case is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 298 anagrams from letters in wing-case (-aceginsw).

Definitions for wing-case

noun

  1. elytron.

Origin of wing-case

First recorded in 1655-65

Examples for wing-case

Shard, shrd, n. a fragment, as of an earthen vessel: the wing-case of a beetle.

Certainly this resembles a rough sketch of the future wing-case; but how different from the mature structure!

On the right side of the body, in fig. 3, the wing has been folded up, and is covered by the wing-case.

Here was the hind-leg of one of the smaller beetles, there the wing-case of a flying creature.

The instrument by which it produces its music is contrived out of the ordinary nervures of the wing-case.

Word Value for wing-case
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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