Insects

Word INSECTS
Character 7
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈɪnsɛkts/

Definitions and meanings of "Insects"

What do we mean by insects?

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.

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The word "insects" in example sentences

Familiarity with life cycles of insects that are disease vectors helps in timing plantings to avoid the insects’ active periods. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Starting to prove that insects fertilize the flowers, his carefully observed facts only served to demonstrate in many cases the reverse -- that _insects could not fertilize_ flowers in the manner he had declared. ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)

An extremely curious object of research would be to consider insects in this new point of view, I say _insects_, for I do not conceive that any thing analogous will be found in other species of animals. ❋ Fran��ois Huber (1790)

The volume of the insects is at the highest, a kind of resurrection high. ❋ Nicholas Rombes (2010)

The entomologists get away with it not only because they have more species, but also because certain insects are major crop pests while others spread disease. ❋ AYDIN (2009)

Do you have any actual evidence that social behavior in insects evolved? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The hum of insects is everywhere but happily they all seem far more interested in the flowers than the humans. ❋ "AKMuckraker" (2010)

Daniel Smith: Do you have any actual evidence that social behavior in insects evolved? ❋ Unknown (2009)

In nature, the lotus leaf and certain insects are water resistant because hair spacing and surface tension cause water to bead up, says Tonia Hsieh, an associate biology professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, whose conversations with Sigmund influenced his design. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Threatening anyone with exposure to stinging insects is probably not going to go over well with legal authorities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“To actually be able to stop it from happening, that was very exciting,” Anstey said. posted by Deron Bauman in insects, science | * | 1 comment comments ❋ Unknown (2009)

Parthenogenesis is known in insects, but is more rare in vertebrates, although sharks may have the ancient survivalist gene built in to some of the older species on Earth. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The fact that they eat smaller, bitier insects is more than enough for me – if a spider keeps away from my bed, it can stay. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For instance, more than two million pinned and labeled insects from the area are deposited in the collections of the National Institute of Biodiversity (INBio). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Similar measurements have been made in insects and some birds, but this is the first such data for bats, which are highly flexible and maneuverable flyers and a potential model for engineered micro air vehicles. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Their website sometimes has some interesting little nuggets of info, but this one fell into the category of ‘read it twice to make sure you got the right end of the stick’: DARPA seeks innovative proposals to develop technology to create insect-hybrids, possibly enabled by intimately integrating microsystems within insects, during their early stages of metamorphosis. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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