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01767661-n:
invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
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02160947-n:
an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species
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02161078-n:
anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
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02161225-n:
insects that undergo complete metamorphosis
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02161338-n:
an insect that strips the leaves from plants
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(has_hyponym)
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02161457-n:
an insect that carries pollen from one flower to another
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(has_hyponym)
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02161588-n:
any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed
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02162235-n:
any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera
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02163297-n:
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
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02163763-n:
any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter
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02164464-n:
insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
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02183507-n:
any of a small order of slender typically tropical insects that nest in colonies in silken tunnels that they spin
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(has_hyponym)
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02183857-n:
wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
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(has_hyponym)
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02185481-n:
wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds
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(has_hyponym)
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02186153-n:
any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap
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02188699-n:
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
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02198129-n:
any of various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue especially of the family Gracilariidae
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02206270-n:
insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing
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02207449-n:
sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae
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02223266-n:
whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood
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02226183-n:
any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts
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02231052-n:
large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects
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02232951-n:
cockroaches and mantids
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02236355-n:
general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
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02236896-n:
insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
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02241569-n:
true bugs: insects whose forewings are membranous but have leathery tips
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02246011-n:
insects having membranous forewings and hind wings
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02260421-n:
small soft-bodied insect with chewing mouthparts and either no wings or two pairs
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02262178-n:
short-lived insect
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02262803-n:
primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones
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02263378-n:
insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins
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02268148-n:
large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings
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02269196-n:
caddis fly
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02270011-n:
primitive wingless insects: bristletail
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02271570-n:
an insect of the order Thysanoptera
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02272871-n:
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
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02274024-n:
insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales
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02312427-n:
an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult
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02312912-n:
an adult insect produced after metamorphosis
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02313008-n:
the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
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01767199-n:
jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
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07996149-n:
a group of many things in the air or on the ground
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01903631-n:
a shield-like plate on the front of an insect's head
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02151625-n:
a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
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02151940-n:
a wing of an insect
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02467884-n:
any of the thin-walled extensions of the tracheae of insects
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02665543-n:
part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs
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05277100-n:
a projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin
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02832164-a:
of or relating to the class Insecta
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02832164-a:
of or relating to the class Insecta
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02694784-a:
(birds or insects) characterized by or tending to chirp
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13493692-n:
complete metamorphosis in insects
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01391351-a:
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
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01767661-n:
invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
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02609168-a:
deriving oxygen from the air
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00196799-a:
of flowering plants (especially orchids etc) that are pollinated by insects
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00311865-v:
darken with a brownish tinge, as of insect wings
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00315383-a:
(of animals and plants) feeding on insects
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01314388-n:
any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.
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01314781-n:
an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects)
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01315980-n:
any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats
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01324799-n:
any organism that feeds mainly on insects
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01369819-n:
the type species of the genus Serratia; a species found in water and soil and milk and foods and insects; can cause infections of the endocardium and blood and wounds and urinary tract and respiratory tract; has been tested as a bioweapon
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01386354-n:
an organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant
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01423617-n:
vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates
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01460813-n:
egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes
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01461146-n:
egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
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01490603-a:
immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage
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01491067-a:
of an inactive stage in the development of some insects, between the larval and the pupal stages
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01491541-a:
of the insects in the chrysalis (cocoon) or post larval stage
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01530076-a:
(of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult
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01530378-a:
(of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage
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01530622-a:
(of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis
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01539573-n:
any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects
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01547832-n:
large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing
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01555809-n:
any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing
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01568132-n:
any of numerous American wood warblers that feed on insects caught on the wing
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01584225-n:
any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects
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01590583-n:
any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects
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01608432-n:
any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals
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01646388-n:
largest known toad species; native to Central America; valuable destroyer of insect pests
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01657867-a:
(of an insect pupa) enclosed in a rigid case
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01689411-n:
any of a small family of lizards widely distributed in warm areas; all are harmless and useful as destroyers of e.g. slugs and insects
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(rgloss)
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01767199-n:
jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
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01768808-n:
any part of the mouth of an insect or other arthropod especially one adapted to a specific way of feeding
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01826844-n:
Madagascan roller with terrestrial and crepuscular habits that feeds on e.g. insects and worms
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01835276-n:
mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects
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01838598-n:
bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
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01889074-n:
small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals
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01895630-n:
the outer body wall of an insect
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01900341-n:
a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile
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01900985-n:
small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects
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01903631-n:
a shield-like plate on the front of an insect's head
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01905321-n:
outer sheath of the pupa of certain insects
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01922303-n:
any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
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01923025-n:
any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood
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01933478-n:
slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects
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02039780-n:
African courser that feeds on insect parasites on crocodiles
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02118176-n:
striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects
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02141306-n:
typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects; worldwide in distribution
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02144593-n:
any New or Old World carnivorous bat erroneously thought to suck blood but in fact feeding on insects
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02151940-n:
a wing of an insect
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02152064-n:
either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings
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02152559-n:
either of the horny front wings in beetles and some other insects which cover and protect the functional hind wings
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02159271-n:
insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species
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02161078-n:
anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
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02161225-n:
insects that undergo complete metamorphosis
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(rgloss)
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02161338-n:
an insect that strips the leaves from plants
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(rgloss)
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02161457-n:
an insect that carries pollen from one flower to another
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(rgloss)
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02161588-n:
any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed
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(rgloss)
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02161737-n:
an order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region
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(rgloss)
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02161944-n:
an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip
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(rgloss)
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02162235-n:
any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera
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(rgloss)
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02162404-n:
a family of insects of the order Mecoptera
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(rgloss)
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02162561-n:
any of various mecopterous insects of the family Panorpidae of the northern hemisphere having a long beak and long antennae; males have a tail like that of a scorpion except it is not venomous
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(rgloss)
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02162831-n:
a family of predacious tropical insects of the order Mecoptera
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(rgloss)
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02163008-n:
any of various mecopterous insects of the family Bittacidae
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(rgloss)
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02163297-n:
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
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(rgloss)
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02163763-n:
any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter
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(rgloss)
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02164464-n:
insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
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(rgloss)
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02165105-n:
active usually bright-colored beetle that preys on other insects
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(rgloss)
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02165456-n:
small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests
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(rgloss)
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02167151-n:
predacious shining black or metallic terrestrial beetle that destroys many injurious insects
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(rgloss)
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02170848-n:
beetles that prey on other insects
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(rgloss)
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02170993-n:
predacious on other insects; usually brightly colored or metallic
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(rgloss)
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02183507-n:
any of a small order of slender typically tropical insects that nest in colonies in silken tunnels that they spin
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(rgloss)
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02183857-n:
wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
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(rgloss)
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02185481-n:
wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds
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(rgloss)
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02186153-n:
any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap
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(rgloss)
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02188065-n:
a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies
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(rgloss)
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02188699-n:
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
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(rgloss)
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02192673-n:
parasites on other insects
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(rgloss)
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02192814-n:
bristly fly whose larvae live parasitically in caterpillars and other insects; important in control of noxious insects
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02195819-n:
hairy nectar-eating fly that resembles a bee; larvae are parasitic on larvae of bees and related insects
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(rgloss)
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02196119-n:
swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing
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(rgloss)
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02196344-n:
any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits
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(rgloss)
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02200198-n:
two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals
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(rgloss)
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02202678-n:
minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects
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(rgloss)
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02203592-n:
mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation
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(rgloss)
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02205896-n:
an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc.
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(rgloss)
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02206270-n:
insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing
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(rgloss)
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02206856-n:
any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
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(rgloss)
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02215770-n:
solitary wasp that digs nests in the soil and stocks them with paralyzed insects for the larvae
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02216365-n:
wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae
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(rgloss)
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02217563-n:
any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects
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02218371-n:
hymenopterous insect that resembles a wasp and whose larvae are parasitic on caterpillars and other insect larvae
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02218713-n:
insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant
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(rgloss)
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02220518-n:
tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects
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(rgloss)
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02226183-n:
any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts
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(rgloss)
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02226429-n:
terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
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(rgloss)
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02229544-n:
leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
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(rgloss)
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02231052-n:
large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects
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(rgloss)
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02231487-n:
any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies
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(rgloss)
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02232223-n:
tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body; common in southern Asia and the East Indies
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(rgloss)
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02232408-n:
subclass of insects characterized by gradual and usually incomplete metamorphosis
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(rgloss)
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02233338-n:
any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests
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(rgloss)
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02236044-n:
predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer
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(rgloss)
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02236355-n:
general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
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(rgloss)
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02236896-n:
insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
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(rgloss)
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02237424-n:
small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juices
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(rgloss)
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02239192-n:
small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses
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(rgloss)
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02240223-n:
wingless flat-bodied bloodsucking insects
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(rgloss)
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02240706-n:
aquatic carnivorous insects
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(rgloss)
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02241008-n:
predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites
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(rgloss)
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02241426-n:
any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and especially of the suborder Heteroptera
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(rgloss)
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02241569-n:
true bugs: insects whose forewings are membranous but have leathery tips
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(rgloss)
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02242455-n:
long-legged aquatic insect having the front legs fitted for seizing and holding prey and the abdomen extended by a long breathing tube
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(rgloss)
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02244173-n:
a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals
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(rgloss)
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02244797-n:
large predatory North American bug that sucks the blood of other insects
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(rgloss)
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02246011-n:
insects having membranous forewings and hind wings
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(rgloss)
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02246628-n:
minute insect that feeds on plant juices; related to scale insects
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(rgloss)
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02248887-n:
an insect active in all stages
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(rgloss)
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02249256-n:
any of various insects that secrete a waxy substance
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(rgloss)
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02249515-n:
insect having a firm covering of wax especially in the female
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(rgloss)
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02249809-n:
small east Asian insect naturalized in the United States that damages fruit trees
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(rgloss)
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02250464-n:
scalelike insects: mealybugs
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(rgloss)
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02250822-n:
scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees
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02251233-n:
Asiatic insect introduced accidentally into United States; pest on citrus and apple trees
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02251775-n:
any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
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02252226-n:
any of various small plant-sucking insects
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02254697-n:
any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers
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02255391-n:
an insect that feeds on hemlocks; its egg sacs are small fuzzy white balls like artificial snow on a Christmas tree
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02256172-n:
small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices
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02256656-n:
stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone
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02257715-n:
small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete
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02258198-n:
North American insect that severely damages grasses
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02258508-n:
North American insect that attacks pines
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02259212-n:
small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants
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02259708-n:
small leaping insect that sucks juices of branches and twigs
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02259987-n:
large brightly marked tropical insect with a process like a snout that was formerly thought to emit light
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02260183-n:
an order of insects: includes booklice and bark-lice
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02260421-n:
small soft-bodied insect with chewing mouthparts and either no wings or two pairs
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02260623-n:
a family of small soft-bodied insects that feed on decaying vegetation; related to booklice
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02260863-n:
small winged insect living on the bark and leaves of trees and feeding on e.g. fungi and decaying plant matter
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02261063-n:
any of several insects living on the bark of plants
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02262178-n:
short-lived insect
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02262449-n:
slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days
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02262803-n:
primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones
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02263038-n:
an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies
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02263378-n:
insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins
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02264021-n:
winged insect resembling a dragonfly; the larvae (doodlebugs) dig conical pits where they wait to catch e.g. ants
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02264232-n:
the larva of any of several insects
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02264363-n:
any of two families of insects with gauzy wings (Chrysopidae and Hemerobiidae); larvae feed on insect pests such as aphids
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02266050-n:
large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait
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02266864-n:
dark-colored insect having predaceous aquatic larvae
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02267208-n:
predatory insect of western North America having a long necklike prothorax
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02267483-n:
insect that resembles a mantis; larvae are parasites in the nests of spiders and wasps
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02267826-n:
hairy-bodied insect whose larvae feed on freshwater sponges
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02268148-n:
large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings
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02268443-n:
slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
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02268853-n:
slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest
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02269015-n:
an order of insects consisting of caddis flies
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02269340-n:
small moth-like insect having two pairs of hairy membranous wings and aquatic larvae
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02269522-n:
insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body
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02270011-n:
primitive wingless insects: bristletail
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02270200-n:
small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail
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02270623-n:
silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing
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02271222-n:
wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed
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02271570-n:
an insect of the order Thysanoptera
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02271897-n:
any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive
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02272871-n:
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
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02274024-n:
insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales
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02274259-n:
diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
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02283201-n:
typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae
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02301072-n:
important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known
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02309242-n:
an insect or other arthropod between molts
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02311617-n:
a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)
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02312006-n:
a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects
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02312427-n:
an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult
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02312744-n:
silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs
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02312912-n:
an adult insect produced after metamorphosis
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02452813-n:
beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils
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02467884-n:
any of the thin-walled extensions of the tracheae of insects
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02468178-n:
silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders
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02468735-n:
one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect
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02481457-a:
having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects
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02500749-n:
extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
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02501583-n:
nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates
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02567281-a:
(of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions
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02567593-a:
(especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings
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02568389-a:
(of insects) without wings
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02584915-n:
one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste
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02620578-n:
any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia
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02665543-n:
part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs
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02665687-n:
the anterior part of an insect's thorax; bears the first pair of legs
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02730682-v:
feel as if crawling with insects
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02734914-a:
of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks
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02745075-a:
of or relating to insects of the order Hymenoptera
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03137840-a:
relating to or characteristic of insects of the order Isoptera
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03373237-n:
fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
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03819994-n:
a trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects
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a door that consists of a frame holding metallic or plastic netting; used to allow ventilation and to keep insects from entering a building through the open door
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04219424-n:
a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae
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a web spun by spiders to trap insect prey
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04369282-n:
an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects
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04589890-n:
screen to keep insects from entering a building through the open window
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05130735-n:
distance between the tips of the wings (as of a bird or insect) when fully extended
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05312427-n:
in insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image
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05532050-n:
one of the tubules forming the respiratory system of most insects and many arachnids
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05555017-n:
small space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing
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05592126-n:
a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)
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05723080-n:
an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin
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06072275-n:
the branch of zoology that studies insects
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07304266-n:
a smoky fire to drive away insects
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07379409-n:
a sharp sound made by small birds or insects
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07395957-n:
a shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together
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07996412-n:
a swarm of insects that attack plants
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09312094-n:
a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect
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a nest in which spiders or insects deposit their eggs
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10059904-n:
a zoologist who studies insects
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10074339-n:
someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
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Dutch naturalist and microscopist who proposed a classification of insects and who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and was the first to see red blood cells (1637-1680)
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11533999-n:
a part of a plant (e.g., a leaf) that has been modified to provide protection for insects or mites or fungi
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11728530-n:
a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects
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11811473-n:
mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone
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12521624-n:
an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance
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12716400-n:
tree of the Amazon valley yielding a light brittle timber locally regarded as resistant to insect attack
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12735160-n:
parasitic tree of Indonesia and Malaysia having fragrant close-grained yellowish heartwood with insect repelling properties and used, e.g., for making chests
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12735452-n:
close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork
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plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals
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plants that are variously modified to serve as insect traps: families Sarraceniaceae; Nepenthaceae; Droseraceae
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any of several herbs of Guiana highlands having racemes of nodding white or pink flowers; trap and digest insects in pitcher-shaped leaves with spoon-shaped caps
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12782530-n:
any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution
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carnivorous plant of coastal plains of the Carolinas having sensitive hinged marginally bristled leaf blades that close and entrap insects
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perennial of dry habitats whose leaves have glandular hairs that secrete adhesive and digestive fluid for capture and digestion of insects; Portugal, southern Spain and Morocco
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any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects
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12916723-n:
hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding
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12974457-n:
mostly parasitic lower fungi that typically develop in the bodies of insects
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12974662-n:
type genus of the Entomophthoraceae; fungi parasitic on insects
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a stinkhorn having a stalk without a cap; the slimy gleba is simply plastered on its surface near the apex where winged insects can find it
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13099586-n:
abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury
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13492789-n:
incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects
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13493003-n:
development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity
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13493692-n:
complete metamorphosis in insects
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13532501-n:
process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods
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14067902-n:
a severe and rapid and sometimes fatal hypersensitivity reaction to a substance (especially a vaccine or penicillin or shellfish or insect venom) to which the organism has become sensitized by previous exposure
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a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
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14325006-n:
hallucinated sensation that insects or snakes are crawling over the skin; a common side-effect of extensive use of cocaine or amphetamines
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14381732-n:
a morbid fear of small insects and mites and worms
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14385160-n:
a morbid fear of insects
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14600135-n:
an insecticide that kills the larvae of insects
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a soft grey malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air; it is highly toxic and is used in rodent and insect poisons; occurs in zinc blende and some iron ores
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14701143-n:
resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax
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14701521-n:
an inferior lac produced by lac insects in Madagascar
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14846890-n:
a chemical substance secreted externally by some animals (especially insects) that influences the physiology or behavior of other animals of the same species
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14855428-n:
excreta (especially of insects)
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14919948-n:
a chemical used to kill insects
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14920252-n:
a chemical substance that repels insects
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14964925-n:
a large decomposing tree trunk that has fallen, usually in a forest; the decaying wood provides moisture and nutrients for a variety of insects and plants
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14969994-n:
an insecticide that interferes with an insect's nervous system
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14980215-n:
a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects)
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15028208-n:
an antitoxin that counteracts the effects of venom from the bite of a snake or insect or other animal
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15036916-n:
toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions)
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15126361-n:
from 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants
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15127729-n:
from 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects
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