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antenna a thin, sensitive appendage on the head of an insect or crustacean, used to feel with. [1/2 definitions]
aphid a small soft-bodied and slow-moving insect that feeds by sucking the juices of plants; plant louse.
barn swallow a small insect-eating bird with dark blue and tan plumage and a deeply forked tail, that often nests in barns and similar structures.
bedbug a small wingless bloodsucking insect that sometimes infests human dwellings and beds.
bookworm any of various insect larvae that infest and feed on the bindings of books. [1/2 definitions]
bug (informal) any insect or insect-like organism. [1/8 definitions]
bug bite (informal) the bite or sting of an insect or the resulting wound or swelling.
caddis fly a small mothlike insect found near lakes and streams that has two pairs of membranous wings.
camphor a whitish, strong-smelling compound extracted from camphor trees or synthesized, and used in plastics, insect repellents, and medications.
chinch bug a small black and white insect that is destructive to grains and grasses.
cilium a tiny hair on a plant, insect, or the like. [1/3 definitions]
citronella the oil obtained from this grass, used as an insect repellant and in perfumes. [1/2 definitions]
claw a pincerlike appendage on a crustacean or insect. [1/6 definitions]
complicate in biology, folded lengthwise several times, as an insect wing or a leaf. [1/3 definitions]
coxa the part of an insect or arthropod leg that is attached to the main body. [1/2 definitions]
craw the pouch in the gullet of a bird or insect in which food is held and may be partially digested; crop. [1/2 definitions]
creepy creeping, as an insect. [1/3 definitions]
dipteran of or pertaining to a two-winged insect; dipterous. [1/2 definitions]
dobsonfly a large insect with four membranous, veiny wings, whose carnivorous larvae live in water. (See hellgrammite.)
earwig a nocturnal insect having a pincerslike structure at the rear of the abdomen. [1/2 definitions]
echidna any of several small, insect-eating, egg-laying mammals of the Australian region that have a long slender snout and a spiny, bristly coat; spiny anteater.