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. |