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insect English

Meaning insect meaning

What does insect mean?
Definitions in simple English

insect

A type of small animal with an external skeleton and six legs. I killed a large insect in the bathroom. (figurative) A person who is weak or not important. The mayor thought of her as a mere insect.

insect

small air-breathing arthropod (= worm) a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

Synonyms insect synonyms

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Topics insect topics

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Examples insect examples

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Simple sentences

I cannot kill an animal unless it is a tiresome insect.
What do you call this insect in English?
Although rainforests make up only two percent of the earth's surface, over half the world's wild plant, animal and insect species live there.
They are nature's laboratory for all kinds of plant, animal and insect life.
The insect grew out of a pupa into an imago.
Thanks to this book, I learned some interesting facts about this insect.
I got a lot of insect bites in the woods.
He squashed the insect with the heel of his foot.
Have you ever eaten an insect?
The body of an insect is divided into head, thorax and abdomen.
By helping an insect out of difficulty, I do nothing more than try to erode a little of the never-ending human guilt towards creation.
Tom used an insect net to collect bugs.
The forest is home to more than 10,000 species of insect, 180 bird species and 58 species of mammal.
An insect is a small animal and it has six legs.
Tom drove to the store and bought three cans of insect spray.
I ate an insect by accident.
He crushed the insect with his heel.
This entomologist has a large insect collection.
He crushed the insect mercilessly.

Movie subtitles

Two little punctures near the jugular vein, like insect bites.
Ive sent a little insect on ahead to take the fight out of them.
In a moment I shall lift my foot and crush you. insect, beetle, worm that you are!
What insect powder do you use?
Full of moisture and insect repellent.
The doctor says he is better. Insect-bad.
An insect bit me.
There's no time to give you a course in insect pathology!
But it's related to insect venom.
Insect venom?
I'm not sure what kind of insect venom it is, but.
There's not an insect in the world with that much venom.
Insect venom in the large economy size. I've heard everything.
Then it is insect venom?
I've sent a little insect on ahead to take the fight out of them.
It is a very attractive flower. that holds out its yellow pollen. but once an insect is lured within its petals. they close like this.
You insect. You dare to imply.
The deadliest insect known to science. It is the lycosa carnivora. Habitat the upper regions of the Obongo River.
Full of moisture and insect repellent. Those women drunk.
The doctor says he is better. Insect-bad. -Yes, I am better.
Then you had waken up and liberated that trapped insect, with the same elegance you liberate yourself from the heart of a woman.
Well, actually, they're similar to some of the insect life on your own planet, larger, of course, with a higher degree of intelligence.
The time that you spend on Earth is a small gnawing insect flexing its mandibles and devouring you.
They tell you what its ingredients are and how it's guaranteed to exterminate every insect in the world, but they do not tell you whether or not it's painless.
And I say, insect or man, death should always be painless.
The insect falls asleep, but doesn't die.
When the insect sleeps, we'll crush it.
Five minutes with her and I'd feel like an insect.
When I sat in your class, why, you wouldn't even dream of harming an insect or an animal.
An insect.
I saw it! A huge face, like an insect, or a giant crab.
A great insect, like. like a crab.
But there is an insect life.
To their ears, you sound like an insect.
There is an insect life.

News and current affairs

If an insect was introduced into the box, rules governed that, too.
Insect-borne infections are being reported at high elevations in South and Central America, Asia, and east and central Africa.
In the 12 years since their commercial introduction, insect-resistant GM crops have increased yields while significantly decreasing the use of toxic pesticides.
Among the explanations are the combinations of pesticide fogging military camps, the treatment with a bromide compound, the use of insect repellents, vaccinations and exposure to depleted uranium.
If, for example, a pathogen is transmitted by an insect that lives in the tops of trees, susceptible hosts will not be infected if they never leave the ground.
Since DDT was banned, insect-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue have been on the rise.
As the modified corn fends off insect pests, it also reduces the levels of the mold Fusarium, thereby reducing the levels of fumonisin.

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