entomo-, entom-

In biology, a reference to a plant that is pollinated by two different insect species and having two kinds of flowers each adapted for one of the insect pollinators.

Insects that have mouthparts with recessed mandibles and maxillae concealed by lateral folds on the head.

Dispersed by the agency of insects.

A reference to flowers that are pollinated by insects.

Living in or on insects.

A written description of an insect or of its life history.

1. Resembling an insect.
2. Similar to an insect in shape or form.

1. A reference to the study of insects or some aspect of insect studies.
2. Of or relating to the biological science of entomology.

Someone who specializes in the study of insects.

To collect insect specimens in the study of entomology.

1. The branch of zoology that deals with the study of insects.
2. From French entomologie (1764), coined from Greek entomon, "insect" plus logia, "study of". Entomon is the neuter form of entomos, "having a notch or cut (at the waist)"; so called by Aristotle in reference to the segmented division of insect bodies.

Scientists who study insects (there are close to a million that can be studied) are called entomologists. Then why aren't they called "insectologists"? Well, they are.

The word insect comes from the Latin word insectum, meaning "cut up" or "divided into segments". The plural of insectum, namely insecta, is used by scientists as the name of the taxonomic class that insects belong to. This Latin word was created in order to translate the Greek word for "insect", which is entomon. This Greek word also literally means "cut up" or "divided into segments", and it is the source of the word entomology.

The Greeks coined this term for insects because of the division of insect bodies into three segments, now called the head, thorax, and abdomen.

An abnormal or compulsive fascination with insects.

Causing a disease or diseases in insects.

1. One of a group of hymenopterous (winged) insects whose larvae feed parasitically upon living insects.
2. A group of edentates, including the ant-eaters.
3. A group of marsupials which are partly insectivorous; such as, the opossum.

Eating or feeding on insects, or the consumption of insects; insectivorous.