Insect

Noun

 * 1) An arthropod in the class Insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.
 * 2)  Any small arthropod similar to an insect including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc
 * 3) A contemptible or powerless person.

Adjectives for Insect
individual; venomous; luminous; aculeate; industrious; blundering; coral; silken-winged; bloated; noisome; dormant; swarming; glittering; populous; all-devouring; melodious; gorgeous; countless (plural); injurious; ubiquitous; energetic; acquisitive; sweet; throbbing; mottled; destructive; painless; annoying; voracious; multitudinous (pi).

Thesaurus
Chilopoda, Chordata, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, Lepisma, Monoplacophora, Nemertinea, Phoronidea, animal, ant, aphid, aphis, arachnid, arthropod, assassin bug, beast, bedbug, bee, beetle, bluebottle, borer, bug, butterfly, caddis fly, caterpillar, centipede, chafer, chigoe, chilopod, cicada, cicala, cockchafer, cockroach, crane fly, cricket, cucumber flea beetle, cur, curculio, daddy longlegs, damselfly, deer fly, diplopod, dobson fly, dog, dragonfly, drosophila, dung beetle, earwig, ephemerid, firefly, flea, fly, gadfly, glowworm, gnat, grain weevil, grasshopper, harvestman, hexapod, hornet, hound, hyena, jigger, katydid, kissing bug, lacewing, lady beetle, ladybird, ladybug, lantern fly, larva, locust, louse, maggot, mantis, mayfly, mealworm, midge, millepede, miller, millipede, mite, mole cricket, mongrel, mosquito, moth, nymph, pig, polecat, reptile, rice weevil, roach, scarab, scorpion, serpent, silverfish, skunk, snake, spider, springtail, squash bug, stag beetle, stinkbug, stone fly, swine, syrphus fly, tarantula, termite, tick, tiger moth, tsetse fly, tumblebug, varmint, vermin, viper, walkingstick, wasp, water bug, weevil, whelp, wood tick, worm, yellow jacket

Etymology
From insectum: < perfect passive partciple of inseco: < in-: + seco:

Synonyms

 * bug (Colloquial 1,2)

Related terms
insecticidal; insecticide; insectivore; insectivorous.

Anagrams

 * incest
 * nicest
 * scient

Translations

 * Albanian: tartabiq
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: intsektu,
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: amprevan, -ed (1,3)
 * Catalan: insecte
 * Chamicuro:
 * Cherokee: ᏍᎪᏱ (sgoyi)
 * Chinese: 昆虫 (kūnchóng)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: hmyz (1,2)
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: insect (1), nietsnut (3)
 * Esperanto:,  virinsekto,  insektino
 * Estonian: putukas
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: insecte (1,3)
 * Galician: insecto
 * Georgian:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: έντομο (éntomo)
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hawaiian: mea kolo
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: कीड़ा (kī.da)
 * Hungarian: rovar (1)
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: insekto,  insektulo,  insektino
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: insecto (1,3)
 * Irish: feithid
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 昆虫 (こんちゅう), 虫 (むし, mushi)
 * Korean: 곤충 (昆蟲, gonchung)
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: kukaiņi, kukainis, insekts
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban: cinki
 * Maltese:
 * Manx:
 * Marathi: कीडा (kīda)
 * Mongolian:
 * Nahuatl: yolkatsin
 * Navajo: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: حشره‌ها
 * Polish: owad (1), robak  (2), zero  (3)
 * Portuguese: inseto (1,3)
 * Romanian: insectă (1)
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: meanbh-fhrìde, frìde, biastag
 * Serbian: ,
 * Sicilian: insettu
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: žuželka (1), insekt  (1)
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: insekt (1)
 * Tagalog: insekto (1)
 * Telugu: పురుగు (purugu), కీటకం (keeTakaM)
 * Thai:
 * Toki Pona: pipi
 * Turkish: böcek (1), haşere (2)
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: (ki.dā)
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük: näsäk,  hinäsäk,  jinäsäk,  sök,  lunim
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: ynsekt
 * Yiddish:
 * West Frisian: ynsekt
 * Yiddish:


 * Finnish:, öttiäinen


 * Scottish Gaelic: meanbh-fhrìde, frìde, biastag


 * Finnish: nilviäinen

Noun

 * 1) bug (an insect of the order Hemiptera)