insect : Idioms & Phrases

• noun scale insects and mealybugs
  

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• noun Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye
  Dactylopius coccus; cochineal.
  

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• noun cockroaches and mantids
  

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• noun 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
  dipteron; dipteran; dipterous insect.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly.

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• (Zoöl.), any insect that produces galls.

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• noun insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
  hemipteron; bug; hemipteran.
  

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• noun true bugs: insects whose forewings are membranous but have leathery tips
  

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• noun insects having membranous forewings and hind wings
  homopteran.
  

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• noun insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing
  hymenopteron; hymenopteran; hymenopter.
  

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• noun a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
  bite; sting.
  

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• noun a chemical used to kill insects
  insecticide.
  

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• a powder used for the extermination of insects; esp., the powdered flowers of certain species of Pyrethrum, a genus now merged in Chrysanthemum. Called also Persian powder.

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• noun a chemical substance that repels insects
  insectifuge; insect repellant.
  

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• noun a chemical substance that repels insects
  insectifuge; insect repellant.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small parasitic mite (Sarcoptes scabei) which burrows and breeds beneath the human skin, thus causing the disease known as the itch. See Illust. in Append.

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• noun tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body; common in southern Asia and the East Indies
  walking leaf.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several genera and species of orthopterous insects, esp. of the genus Phyllium, in which the wings, and sometimes the legs, resemble leaves in color and form. They are common in Southern Asia and the East Indies.

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• noun insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales
  lepidopteron; lepidopteran.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small parasitic mites, which burrow in the skin of cattle. horses, dogs, and other animals, causing the mange. The mange insect of the horse (Psoroptes, ∨ Dermatodectes, equi), and that of cattle (Symbiotes, ∨ Dermatophagys, bovis) are the most important species. See Acarina.

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• (Zoöl), a scale insect (Gossyparia mannipara), which causes the exudation of manna from the Tamarisk tree in Arabia.

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• noun insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins
  neuropteran; neuropteron.
  

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• noun any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts
  orthopteran; orthopteron.
  

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• noun large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects
  phasmid.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a mantis, especially Mantis religiosa. See Mantis.

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• noun small soft-bodied insect with chewing mouthparts and either no wings or two pairs
  

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• noun small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small hemipterous insects belonging to the family Coccidæ, in which the females, when adult, become more or less scalelike in form. They are found upon the leaves and twigs of various trees and shrubs, and often do great damage to fruit trees. See Orange scale,under Orange.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus Boreus. The male has rudimentary wings; the female is wingless. These insects sometimes appear creeping and leaping on the snow in great numbers.

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• noun an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species
  

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• noun small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete
  spittlebug.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Cuckoo spit (b), under Cuckoo.

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• noun any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies
  walking stick; walkingstick.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of various species of wingless orthopterous insects of the family Phasmidæ, which have a long round body, resembling a stick in form and color, and long legs, which are often held rigidly in such positions as to make them resemble small twigs. They thus imitate the branches and twigs of the trees on which they live. The common American species is Diapheromera femorata. Some of the Asiatic species are more than a foot long.

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• noun an insect of the order Thysanoptera
  thysanopteron; thysanopter.
  

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• noun primitive wingless insects: bristletail
  thysanuron.
  

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• noun caddis fly
  trichopteran; trichopteron.
  

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• noun 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
  dipteron; dipteran; dipterous insect.
  

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• noun any of various insects that secrete a waxy substance
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of scale insects belonging to the family Coccidæ, which secrete from their bodies a waxlike substance, especially the Chinese wax insect (Coccus Sinensis) from which a large amount of the commercial Chinese wax is obtained. Called also pela.

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