English > insect: 2 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | small air-breathing arthropod. |
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| Category of | chirpy | (birds or insects) characterized by or tending to chirp |
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| holometabolism, holometaboly | complete metamorphosis in insects |
| Member of | Arthropoda, phylum Arthropoda | jointed-foot invertebrates |
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| swarm, cloud | A group of many things in the air or on the ground |
| Parts | air sac | Any of the thin-walled extensions of the tracheae of insects |
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| ala | A wing of an insect |
| clypeus | A shield-like plate on the front of an insect's head |
| mentum | A projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin |
| thorax | Part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs |
| wing | A movable organ for flying (one of a pair) |
| Narrower | beetle | insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings |
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| bird louse, biting louse, louse | wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting |
| bug | general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate |
| collembolan, springtail | Any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special / special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern |
| defoliator | An insect that strips the leaves from plants |
| dictyopterous insect | cockroaches and mantids |
| dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, 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 |
| earwig | 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 |
| ephemerid, ephemeropteran | short-lived insect |
| ephemeron, ephemeral | Anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form |
| flea | Any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap |
| gallfly | Any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed |
| hemipterous insect, bug, hemipteran, hemipteron | insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base |
| heteropterous insect | true bugs |
| holometabola, metabola | insects that undergo complete metamorphosis |
| homopterous insect, homopteran | insects having membranous forewings and hind wings |
| hymenopterous insect, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopter | insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing |
| imago | An adult insect produced after metamorphosis |
| leaf miner, leaf-miner | Any of various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue especially of the family Gracilariidae |
| lepidopterous insect, lepidopteron, lepidopteran | insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales |
| louse, sucking louse | wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals |
| mecopteran | Any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera |
| neuropteron, neuropteran, neuropterous insect | insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins |
| odonate | large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings |
| orthopterous insect, orthopteron, orthopteran | Any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts |
| phasmid, phasmid insect | large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants |
| pollinator | An insect that carries pollen from one flower to another |
| proturan, telsontail | Any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head |
| psocopterous insect | 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 |
| queen | The only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites |
| social insect | An insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species |
| stonefly, stone fly, plecopteran | Primitive winged insect with a flattened body |
| termite, white ant | whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood |
| thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect | An insect of the order Thysanoptera |
| thysanuran insect, thysanuron | Primitive wingless insects |
| trichopterous insect, trichopteran, trichopteron | caddis fly |
| web spinner | Any of a small order of slender typically tropical insects that nest in colonies in silken tunnels that they spin / spin |
| worker | sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages / forages for food and cares for the larvae |
| Broader | arthropod | invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin |
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| Spanish | insecta, insecto, insectos |
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| Catalan | insecta, insecte |
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| Adjectives | insectan | of or relating to the class Insecta |
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