'lantern fly' definitions:
Definition of 'lantern fly'
(from WordNet)
noun
Large brightly marked tropical insect with a process like a snout that was formerly thought to emit light [syn: lantern fly, lantern-fly]
Definition of 'lantern fly'
From: 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]