HyperDic: insecta

English > 1 sense of the word Insecta:
NOUNanimalInsecta, class Insecta, Hexapoda, class Hexapodainsects
English > Insecta: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaninginsects; about five-sixths of all known animal species.
Synonymsclass Insecta, Hexapoda, class Hexapoda
Member ofArthropoda, phylum Arthropodajointed-foot invertebrates
MembersAnoplura, order Anoplurasucking lice
Coleoptera, order Coleopterabeetles
Collembola, order Collembolaminute wingless arthropods
Dermaptera, order Dermapteraearwigs and a few related forms
Dictyoptera, order DictyopteraIn some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids)
Diptera, order DipteraA large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths
Embioptera, order Embioptera, Embiodea, order Embiodeaweb spinners
Ephemeroptera, order Ephemeroptera, Ephemerida, order Ephemeridamayflies
Exopterygota, subclass Exopterygota, Hemimetabolasubclass of insects characterized by gradual and usually incomplete metamorphosis
Hemiptera, order Hemipteraplant bugs
Hymenoptera, order HymenopteraAn order of insects including
Isoptera, order IsopteraOrder of social insects that live in colonies, including
Lepidoptera, order Lepidopteramoths and butterflies
Mallophaga, order Mallophagabiting lice
Mantophasmatodea, order mantophasmatodeaAn order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region
Mecoptera, order MecopteraAn order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip
Neuroptera, order NeuropteraAn order of insects including
Odonata, order Odonatadragonflies and damselflies
Orthoptera, order Orthopteragrasshoppers and locusts
Phasmida, order Phasmida, Phasmatodea, order PhasmatodeaIn some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera
Plecoptera, order Plecopterastoneflies
Protura, order Proturaminute wingless arthropods
Psocoptera, order Psocoptera, Corrodentia, order CorrodentiaAn order of insects
Siphonaptera, order Siphonapterafleas
Thysanoptera, order Thysanopterathrips
Thysanura, order Thysanurafirebrats
Trichoptera, order TrichopteraAn order of insects consisting of caddis flies
Broaderclass(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
Spanishhexápodos, insectos
CatalanHexapoda, Hexàpode, Insecta, Insecte

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