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- DictionaryIn·sect/ˈinˌsek(t)/
noun
- 1. a small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings: "insect pests"
noun. any small air-breathing arthropod of the class Insecta, having a body divided into head, thorax, and abdomen, three pairs of legs, and (in most species) two pairs of wings. Insects comprise about five sixths of all known animal species, with a total of over one million named species entomic.
Add to word list. biology. a type of small animal with six legs, a body divided into three parts, and often two pairs of wings, for example, an ant, beetle, or butterfly. (Definition of insect from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
biology. a type of small animal with six legs, a body divided into three parts, and often two pairs of wings, for example, an ant, beetle, or butterfly. (Definition of insect from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
insect. noun. /ˈɪnsekt/. /ˈɪnsekt/. any small creature with six legs and a body divided into three parts. Insects usually also have wings. Ants, bees and flies are all insects. Most birds spend most of the day eating insects. There are about 30 million species of insects in the world.
Origin of wings. Kinds of insects. Taxonomy. Insects and people. Pesticides. References. Other websites. Insects are a class in the phylum Arthropoda. [2] . They are small terrestrial invertebrates which have a hard exoskeleton . Insects are the largest group of animals on Earth by far: about 926,400 different species have been described. [3] .
noun. /ˈɪnsɛkt/ enlarge image. any small creature with six legs and a body divided into three parts. Insects usually also have wings. ants, bees, and flies are all insects. insect species insect repellent (= a chemical that keeps insects away) an insect bite The pesticide is lethal to all insect life.
Britannica Dictionary definition of INSECT. [count] 1. : a small animal that has six legs and a body formed of three parts and that may have wings. flies, bees, and other insects [= ( chiefly US, informal) bugs] a swarm of flying insects. — often used before another noun. an insect bite.
