| NOUN | animal | phasmid, phasmid insect | large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants |
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| Meaning | large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects. | |
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| Synonym | phasmid insect | |
| Member of | Phasmida, order Phasmida, Phasmatodea, order Phasmatodea | In some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera |
| Narrower | walking leaf, leaf insect | Tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body |
| walking stick, walkingstick, stick insect | Any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies | |
| Broader | insect | small air-breathing arthropod |
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