insect
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1. small air-breathing arthropod (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | arthropod, |
| definition | : | invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | social insect, |
| definition | : | an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ephemeral, ephemeron, |
| definition | : | anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | holometabola, metabola, |
| definition | : | insects that undergo complete metamorphosis (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | defoliator, |
| definition | : | an insect that strips the leaves from plants (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | pollinator, |
| definition | : | an insect that carries pollen from one flower to another (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | gallfly, |
| definition | : | any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | mecopteran, |
| definition | : | any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | collembolan, springtail, |
| definition | : | any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | proturan, telsontail, |
| definition | : | any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | beetle, |
| definition | : | insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | web spinner, |
| definition | : | any of a small order of slender typically tropical insects that nest in colonies in silken tunnels that they spin (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | louse, sucking louse, |
| definition | : | wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bird louse, biting louse, louse, |
| definition | : | wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | flea, |
| definition | : | any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects, |
| definition | : | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | leaf miner, leaf-miner, |
| definition | : | any of various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue especially of the family Gracilariidae (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | worker, |
| definition | : | sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | termite, white ant, |
| definition | : | whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | phasmid, phasmid insect, |
| definition | : | large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bug, |
| definition | : | general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | heteropterous insect, |
| definition | : | true bugs: insects whose forewings are membranous but have leathery tips (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | psocopterous insect, |
| definition | : | small soft-bodied insect with chewing mouthparts and either no wings or two pairs (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | plecopteran, stone fly, stonefly, |
| definition | : | primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | odonate, |
| definition | : | large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | earwig, |
| definition | : | any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | pupa, |
| definition | : | an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | imago, |
| definition | : | an adult insect produced after metamorphosis (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | queen, |
| definition | : | the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | clypeus, |
| definition | : | a shield-like plate on the front of an insect's head (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | wing, |
| definition | : | a movable organ for flying (one of a pair) (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | ala, |
| definition | : | a wing of an insect (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | air sac, |
| definition | : | any of the thin-walled extensions of the tracheae of insects (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | thorax, |
| definition | : | part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | mentum, |
| definition | : | a projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin (noun.body) |
| member meronym | : | arthropoda, phylum arthropoda, |
| definition | : | jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | cloud, swarm, |
| definition | : | a group of many things in the air or on the ground (noun.group) |
2. a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect (noun.person)
3. small air-breathing arthropod (noun.animal)
| derivation | : | insectan, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the class Insecta (adj.pert) |
| domain member category | : | chirpy, |
| definition | : | (birds or insects) characterized by or tending to chirp (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | insectan, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the class Insecta (adj.pert) |
| domain member category | : | chirpy, |
| definition | : | (birds or insects) characterized by or tending to chirp (adj.pert) |
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