English noun: insect |
| 1. | insect (animal) small air-breathing arthropod |
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| Broader (hypernym) | arthropod |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | beetle, bird louse, biting louse, bug, bug, collembolan, defoliator, dictyopterous insect, dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, earwig, ephemeral, ephemerid, ephemeron, ephemeropteran, flea, gallfly, hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect, heteropterous insect, holometabola, homopteran, homopterous insect, hymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect, imago, leaf miner, leaf-miner, lepidopteran, lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect, louse, louse, mecopteran, metabola, neuropteran, neuropteron, neuropterous insect, odonate, orthopteran, orthopteron, orthopterous insect, phasmid, phasmid insect, plecopteran, pollinator, proturan, psocopterous insect, pupa, queen, social insect, springtail, stone fly, stonefly, sucking louse, telsontail, termite, thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect, thysanuran insect, thysanuron, trichopteran, trichopteron, trichopterous insect, two-winged insects, web spinner, white ant, worker |
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| Part holonym | air sac, ala, clypeus, mentum, thorax, wing |
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| Member meronym | Arthropoda, cloud, phylum Arthropoda, swarm |
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| Domain category members | holometabolism, holometaboly |
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| 2. | insect (person) a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect |
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| Synonyms | dirt ball, louse, worm |
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| Broader (hypernym) | disagreeable person, unpleasant person |
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