INSECT
\ˈɪnsɛkt], \ˈɪnsɛkt], \ˈɪ_n_s_ɛ_k_t]\
Definitions of INSECT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
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One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
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Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
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Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
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Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
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Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
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Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
By Oddity Software
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One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
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Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
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Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
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Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
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Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
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Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
By Noah Webster.
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Insects are a class, Insecta, of Arthropoda whose members are characterized by division into three parts: head, thorax, and abdomen. They are the dominant group of animals on earth, several hundred thousand different kinds having been described. They have lived on earth for about 350 million years, as compared with less than 2 million for man. While insects are often commercially valuable and useful as scavengers, many species are harmful, causing enormous losses in agriculture and storage. Three orders, HEMIPTERA, DIPTERA, and Siphonaptera, are of medical interest in that they cause disease in man and animal. (From Dorland, 27th ed; Borror et al., An Introduction to the Study of Insects, 4th ed, p1)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A small animal, as a wasp or fly, with a body as if cut in the middle, or divided into sections: anything small or contemptible.
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Like an insect: small: mean.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The common name for any of the class Insecta, of the phylum Arthropoda, such as flies, mosquitoes, and ticks. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] An articulate animal that, in its mature state, has the body divided into three distinct parts, the head, the thorax, and the abdomen, has six legs, never more than four wings, and that breathes air through the body in tubes opening externally by spiracles;- ny thing small or contemptible.
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