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Definition of Insect
Insect

One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.

Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.

Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.

Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.

Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.

Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.

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Insect Quotations

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
Jack Henry Abbott

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Honore De Balzac

Insect Translations

insect in Dutch is insekt
insect in French is insecte
insect in German is Insekt
insect in Hungarian is rovar
insect in Italian is insetto
insect in Norwegian is insekt, insekt
insect in Portuguese is inseto, insecto
insect in Spanish is insecto
insect in Swedish is insekt


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