Insect

What do we mean by insect?

Any of numerous arthropod animals of the class Insecta, having an adult stage characterized by three pairs of legs and a body segmented into head, thorax, and abdomen and usually having one or two pairs of wings. Insects include the flies, crickets, mosquitoes, beetles, butterflies, and bees. noun

Any of various other small, chiefly arthropod animals, such as spiders, centipedes, or ticks, usually having many legs. Not in scientific use. noun

An insignificant or contemptible person. noun

A small, usually winged and many-legged, invertebrate creature whose body appears to consist of several segments: a term used in popular speech without exactitude, being applied not only to flies, fleas, dragon-flies, butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, crickets, grasshoppers, roaches, beetles, bugs, lice, and other familiar creatures properly called insects, but also, improperly, to other small creatures whose structure and relations are not popularly understood, as the so-called coral insect, which is an actinozoan. noun

In zoology, any member of the class or other division of animals called Insecta; an arthropod; a condylopod; an articulated animal with articulated legs, especially one with six such legs; a hexapod. See Insecta and Hexapoda, 1. noun

Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of an insect or insects: as, insect transformations; insect architecture.

Like an insect in any respect; small; mean; contemptible.

To seek or catch insects, as a bird does.

Of or pertaining to an insect or insects. adjective

Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral. adjective

One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See insecta. noun

Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion. noun

Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates. noun

Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing. noun

A powder used for the extermination of insects; esp., the powdered flowers of certain species of Pyrethrum, a genus now merged in Chrysanthemum. Called also Persian powder. noun

An arthropod in the class Insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton. noun

Any small arthropod similar to an insect including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc noun

A contemptible or powerless person. noun

Small air-breathing arthropod noun

An arthropod in the class Insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.

Any small arthropod similar to an insect including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc

A contemptible or powerless person.

Words that are spelled similarly to insect:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective insect:
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