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noun. 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.

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.

adjective. Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.

adjective. Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.

noun. 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. a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

"If you are stung on the neck or throat area, inside your mouth or the gastrointestinal tract (this commonly occurs when the insect is swallowed along with a beverage), there is a moderate risk for a complication."

arachnid  arthropod  beetle  bug  chafer  

insecticidal  insecticide  insectivore  insectivorous  

disagreeable person  unpleasant person  

ant  bee  beetle  being  bird  

Chilopoda  Chordata  Echiuroidea  Ectoprocta  Entoprocta  

insecta