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insect
[ in-sekt ]
noun
- any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- any small arthropod, such as a spider, tick, or centipede, having a superficial, general similarity to the insects. Compare arachnid.
- a contemptible or unimportant person.
adjective
- of, pertaining to, like, or used for or against insects:
an insect bite; insect powder.
insect
/ ˈɪԲɛ /
noun
- any small air-breathing arthropod of the class Insecta, having a body divided into head, thorax, and abdomen, three pairs of legs, and (in most species) two pairs of wings. Insects comprise about five sixths of all known animal species, with a total of over one million named species entomic
- (loosely) any similar invertebrate, such as a spider, tick, or centipede
- a contemptible, loathsome, or insignificant person
insect
/ ĭ′ĕ′ /
- Any of very numerous, mostly small arthropods of the class Insecta, having six segmented legs in the adult stage and a body divided into three parts (the head, thorax, and abdomen). The head has a pair of antennae and the thorax usually has one or two pairs of wings. Most insects undergo substantial change in form during development from the young to the adult stage. More than 800,000 species are known, most of them beetles. Other insects include flies, bees, ants, grasshoppers, butterflies, cockroaches, aphids, and silverfish.
- See Notes at biomass
Derived Forms
- ˈٱ, adjective
- ˈԲ-ˌ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- ··پ· [in-sek-, tahy, -v, uh, l], adjective
- ԴDz·s noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of insect1
Example Sentences
The company has now taken the more drastic measure of closure after the insect - widely reported to have been part or all of a cockroach - was found on Friday by a customer in Tokyo.
A line in “Maybe Happy Ending” describes the lives of fireflies, the once-ubiquitous insects that magically produce their own light.
But “arbovirus vaccines“ meant to target viruses transmitted by arthropods and insects “have been recently approved in many countries,” he said, including vaccines for dengue and Chikungunya, which are similar but more severe.
They eat anything and everything — fruits, nuts, insects, human food and pet food.
"Insects are fundamental to life on earth, and we need conservation actions and policies that support insects."
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