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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)
(eating grasshoppers, locusts, and related insects)
(utilizing insects to produce practical substances)
(Ecological survival depends on insects)
(Latin: [diminutive of pupa, a young girl, doll or puppets] the pupil of the eye; including the larva of insects)
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Mosquitoes are insects that make people prefer flies.
This entry is located in the following unit: paraprosdokian, paraprosdokia (page 5)