Vi fant 5 definisjoner av insect på engelsk.
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| insect - small air-breathing arthropod | ||
| arthropod invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin | ||
| arthropoda, phylum arthropoda jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes | ||
| swarm, cloud a group of many things in the air or on the ground; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores" | ||
| clypeus a shield-like plate on the front of an insect's head | ||
| wing a movable organ for flying (one of a pair) | ||
| ala a wing of an insect | ||
| social insect an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species | ||
| ephemeral, ephemeron anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form | ||
| holometabola, metabola insects that undergo complete metamorphosis | ||
| defoliator an insect that strips the leaves from plants | ||
| pollinator an insect that carries pollen from one flower to another | ||
| gallfly any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed | ||
| mecopteran any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera | ||
| collembolan, springtail 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 | ||
| proturan, telsontail any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter | ||
| beetle insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings | ||
| web spinner any of a small order of slender typically tropical insects that nest in colonies in silken tunnels that they spin | ||
| sucking louse, louse wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals | ||
| bird louse, biting louse, louse wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds | ||
| flea any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap | ||
| dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects 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 | ||
| leaf-miner, leaf miner any of various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue especially of the family Gracilariidae | ||
| hymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing | ||
| worker sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae | ||
| termite, white ant whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood | ||
| orthopteran, orthopteron, orthopterous insect any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts | ||
| phasmid, phasmid insect large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects | ||
| dictyopterous insect cockroaches and mantids | ||
| bug general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate | ||
| hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect, bug insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis | ||
| heteropterous insect true bugs: insects whose forewings are membranous but have leathery tips | ||
| homopteran, homopterous insect insects having membranous forewings and hind wings | ||
| psocopterous insect small soft-bodied insect with chewing mouthparts and either no wings or two pairs | ||
| ephemerid, ephemeropteran short-lived insect | ||
| plecopteran, stone fly, stonefly primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones | ||
| neuropteran, neuropteron, neuropterous insect insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins | ||
| odonate large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings | ||
| trichopteran, trichopteron, trichopterous insect caddis fly | ||
| thysanuran insect, thysanuron primitive wingless insects: bristletail | ||
| thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect an insect of the order Thysanoptera | ||
| earwig 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 | ||
| lepidopteran, lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales | ||
| pupa an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult | ||
| imago an adult insect produced after metamorphosis | ||
| queen the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs | ||
| air sac any of the membranous air-filled extensions of the lungs of birds | ||
| thorax part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs | ||
| mentum a projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin | ||
| insect - a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect | ||
| worm, louse, dirt ball | ||
