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Webster 1913 Edition
Teneral
Ten′er-al
,Adj.
[L.
tener
, -eris
, tender, delicate.] (Zool.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.