insect

Noun
  1. Small air-breathing arthropod (synset 102162607)
    associated with: holometabolism, holometaboly - complete metamorphosis in insects
    is a type of: arthropod - invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
    subtypes:
    • 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
    • louse, sucking 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
    • bug, hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect - 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
    belongs to:
    has:
    • 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
    • air sac - any of the thin-walled extensions of the tracheae of insects
    • 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
  2. A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect (synset 110811668)
    is a type of: disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
    same as: dirt ball, louse, worm

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