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insect (s) (noun), insects (pl)
1. A type of very small, air-breathing creature with six legs, a body divided into three parts and usually two pairs of wings; or, more generally, any similar very small animal: "Ants, beetles, butterflies, and flies are all insects."
2. Any of numerous usually small 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 two pairs of wings. Insects include the flies, crickets, mosquitoes, beetles, butterflies, bees, and dragonflies.
A dragonfly has landed on a stem of a plant.

This is an example of an insect known as a dragonfly.

—Photographed by Wolfram Bleul.
This entry is located in the following units: insecto-, insect-, insecti- + (page 1) sec-, seg-, -sect, -section, -sectional (page 2)
insectine: insect
Belonging to or characteristic of an insect.
This entry is located in the following units: -ine (page 10) insecto-, insect-, insecti- + (page 1) sec-, seg-, -sect, -section, -sectional (page 3)
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(Latin: insect in its grub stage; from Latin larva, "mask" and by extension, "ghost", the idea being that an insect in its grub stage is merely a ghost of its future self and bears no resemblance to its future form)
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