Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of insect is as below...

Ovipositor :: Ovipositor (n.) The organ with which many insects and some other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvae of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same..

Homomorphism :: Homomorphism (n.) The possession of but one kind of larvae or young, as in most insects..

Ampliate :: Ampliate (a.) Having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects.

Mandible :: Mandible (n.) The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not. See Illust. of Diptera..

Entomoid :: Entomoid (n.) An object resembling an insect.

Entomotomy :: Entomotomy (n.) The science of the dissection of insects.

Washed :: Washed (a.) Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.

Coarctate :: Coarctate (a.) Pressed together; closely connected; -- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction.

Horntail :: Horntail (n.) Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females..

Larviparous :: Larviparous (a.) Depositing living larvae, instead of eggs; -- said of certain insects..

Cochineal Fig :: Cochineal fig () A plant of Central and Southern America, of the Cactus family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it..

Lamellicorn :: Lamellicorn (n.) A lamellicorn insect.

Cardo :: Cardo (n.) The basal joint of the maxilla in insects.

Aptera :: Aptera (n. pl.) Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnaen order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders..

Thornbill :: Thornbill (n.) Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane..

Kermes :: Kermes (n.) A small European evergreen oak (Quercus coccifera) on which the kermes insect (Coccus ilicis) feeds.

Paraglossa :: Paraglossa (n.) One of a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium of certain insects. See Illust. under Hymenoptera.

Holometabola :: Holometabola (n. pl.) Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.

Metasternum :: Metasternum (n.) The ventral plate of the third or last segment of the thorax of insects.

Granilla :: Granilla (n.) Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.

Random Fonts

Most Popular