What is another word for insect?
290 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˈɪnsɛkt], [ ˈɪnsɛkt], [ ˈɪ_n_s_ɛ_k_t]
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Synonyms for Insect:
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- arachnid,
- adult,
- biped,
- big game,
- bear,
- beast of burden.
- bird,
- mammal,
- reptile,
- ruminant,
- insect,
- amphibian,
- invertebrate,
- carnivore,
- herbivore,
- fish,
- livestock,
- canine,
- brute,
- wildlife,
- vermin,
- animal,
- marsupial,
- feline.
- bristletail,
- stinkbug,
- katydid,
- butterfly,
- grasshopper,
- beetle,
- alder fly,
- seventeen-year locust,
- fruit fly,
- leaf insect,
- cootie,
- ichneumon fly,
- dragonfly,
- scarab,
- spider,
- cicada,
- honeybee,
- firefly,
- hornet,
- gnat,
- moth,
- ladybug,
- Japanese Beetle,
- silverfish,
- scorpion fly,
- darning needle,
- mantis,
- fly,
- wasp,
- caddis-fly,
- yellowjacket,
- cricket,
- praying mantis,
- bumblebee,
- True Fly,
- mealy wing,
- sawfly,
- potato bug,
- walking stick,
- boll weevil,
- corn borer,
- aphid,
- louse,
- daddy longlegs,
- thrips,
- yellow jacket,
- earwig,
- cockroach,
- bee,
- springtail,
- arthropod,
- may fly,
- plant bug,
- ant lion,
- stone fly,
- millipede,
- lacewing,
- scale insect,
- caterpillar.
- worm.
Other synonyms:
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- tick.
- beast,
- body,
- entity,
- animal life,
- creature,
- nature,
- world,
- organism,
- Kingdom Animalia,
- vertebrate,
- creation,
- environment,
- animate being,
- class,
- being,
- living thing,
- living being,
- chain of being,
- natural world,
- world of nature,
- animal kingdom,
- mortal,
- essence,
- fauna,
- unit of being,
- class structure,
- animal group,
- Mother Nature.
- cockchafer,
- mealworm,
- hyena,
- Dobson Fly,
- Hymenopterous Insect,
- remote,
- borer,
- bluebottle,
- Chilopod,
- twerp,
- wood tick,
- infusoria,
- tomtit,
- crustacean,
- biting louse,
- cicala,
- tumblebug,
- shellfish,
- Phytozoaria,
- water bug,
- insignificant,
- zilch,
- rice weevil,
- imago,
- inadequate,
- nobody,
- locust,
- glitch,
- assassin bug,
- dog,
- polecat,
- fine,
- Insects,
- tsetse fly,
- button,
- jigger,
- maggot,
- antenna user,
- homopterous insect,
- Curculio,
- runt,
- mollusk,
- ephemerid,
- damselfly,
- animalcule,
- Diplopod,
- pig,
- mongrel,
- monad,
- casual,
- petty,
- kissing bug,
- nymph,
- cramped,
- tiger moth,
- brief,
- shrimp,
- glowworm,
- larva,
- Cicadas,
- tsetse,
- light,
- grain of sand,
- minnow,
- creepy crawler,
- small,
- Insignificancy,
- young,
- roach,
- short,
- harvestman,
- tit,
- bubble,
- bacteria,
- Hexapod,
- sucking louse,
- snake,
- snippersnapper,
- illness,
- mouse,
- hound,
- microorganism,
- plant louse,
- fragile,
- cur,
- lady beetle,
- entozoon,
- varmint,
- pebble,
- creepy-crawly,
- pupa,
- millepede,
- skunk,
- nullity,
- vain,
- swine,
- grub,
- whippersnapper,
- mayfly,
- error,
- molehill,
- slight,
- walkingstick,
- germ,
- fleeting,
- aphis,
- stag beetle,
- ephemeral,
- viper,
- Microzoa,
- bird louse,
- mole cricket,
- mustard seed,
- limited,
- chigoe,
- microbe,
- drosophila,
- dwarf,
- Syrphus fly,
- serpent,
- minor,
- gallfly,
- imperceptible,
- emmet,
- midge,
- little,
- whelp,
- lantern fly,
- hymenopter,
- weevil,
- ladybird,
- Chafer,
- dung beetle,
- scorpion,
- disease,
- helminth,
- crane fly,
- miller,
- tarantula,
- deer fly,
- barleycorn,
- squash bug,
- narrow,
- caddis fly,
- gadfly,
- small fry.
How to use "Insect" in context?
Insects are tiny creatures that live on land and in water. They are animals that have body segments that are joined together. Insects can be divided into three groups: insects, ticks, and mites. Insects have four wings and two pairs of legs. They can move quickly and Reproduce quickly. Insects can be helpful and pesky at the same time.
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Holonyms for Insect:
n.
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animal
arthropoda, cloud, Phylum Arthropoda, swarm.
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animal
Hypernym for Insect:
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animal
dipteran, Heteropterous Insect, stone fly, hemipteran, thysanopteron, odonate, white ant, hymenopteron, telsontail, thysanuron, collembolan, Hemipterous Insect, ephemeral, lepidopteron, leaf-miner, two-winged insects, hymenopteran, dipteron, earwig, proturan, trichopteron, plecopteran, beetle, termite, flea, ephemeropteran, neuropteron, pollinator, web spinner, Neuropterous Insect, ephemerid, neuropteran, stonefly, defoliator, bug, thysanopter, bird louse, Phasmid Insect, Holometabola, lepidopteran, mecopteran, sucking louse, Hymenopterous Insect, Thysanuran Insect, social insect, Orthopterous Insect, trichopteran, Thysanopterous Insect, phasmid, pupa, Dictyopterous Insect, hymenopter, homopterous insect, hemipteron, Metabola, leaf miner, gallfly, biting louse, Ephemeron, Trichopterous Insect, worker, imago, louse, dipterous insect, homopteran, springtail, Psocopterous Insect, orthopteran, Lepidopterous Insect, orthopteron, queen.
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animal
Hyponym for Insect:
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animal
arthropod.
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animal
Meronym for Insect:
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- Synonyms:
- accessory, contributive, contributory, helpful, leading, promotive, tending, useful, calculated to produce, productive of.
