Sentit | small air-breathing arthropod. |
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Sinònim | insecta |
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Categoria de | holometabolia | complete metamorphosis in insects |
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Membre de | Artròpode | jointed-foot invertebrates |
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eixam | A group of many things in the air or on the ground |
Parts | ala | A movable organ for flying (one of a pair) |
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clípeo, clipi | A shield-like plate on the front of an insect's head |
tòrax | Part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs |
Específic | coleòpter, escarabat | insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings |
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colémbolo, col·lèmbol | Any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special / special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern |
dictiòpter | cockroaches and mantids |
dípter, dipteron | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
efemeròpter | short-lived insect |
efímer | Anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form |
hemípter, hemipteron | insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base |
heteròpter | true bugs |
himenòpter, hymenopter, hymenopteron | insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing |
homòpter | insects having membranous forewings and hind wings |
imago | An adult insect produced after metamorphosis |
lepidòpter | insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales |
neuròpter, neuropteron | insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins |
odonat | large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings |
ortòpter | Any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts |
papaorelles, tijereta, tisoreta | Any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen |
plecòpter | Primitive winged insect with a flattened body |
polinizador, pol·linitzador | An insect that carries pollen from one flower to another |
poll | wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals |
poll | wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting |
protur, telsontail | Any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head |
psocòpter | small soft-bodied insect with chewing mouthparts and either no wings or two pairs |
pupa | An insect in the inactive stage / stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult |
puça | Any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap |
reina | The only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites |
tisanur | Primitive wingless insects |
tisanòpter | An insect of the order Thysanoptera |
tricòpter | caddis fly |
tèrmit | whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood |
General | artròpode | invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin |
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Anglès | insect |
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Espanyol | insecta, insecto, insectos |
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