Insect is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INSECT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a word loosely used for a small invertebrate creature, esp. one with a body divided into sections; in zoological terms, a member of the Insecta
• a small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings
• any small invertebrate animal such as a spider or tick.
• small animal with six legs
• 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.
• small air-breathing arthropod
• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
ADJECTIVE:
• Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
• Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• any of a class of small invertebrate animals

Words related to INSECT

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Words that contain INSECT

insects9 insectan10 insectary14 insectean11 insectile11 insection11 noninsect11 insectaria12 insections12 noninsects12 insectaries13 insectarium15 insecticide16 insectiform18 insectifuge17 insectivore16 insectology17 insectariums16 insecticidal17 insecticides17 insectifuges18 insectivores17 insectivorous18 insectologies16 insectologist16 insecticidally22 insectologists17 noninsecticidal20

How to use INSECT in a sentence

• A thrush, darting from an adjacent tree, seized the opportunity and the insect, and bore the latter away in his bill.
• It was a strange, gigantic insect of metal, having or seeming to have the will of a demon.
• He was for long secretary of the Insect Section, and then president.
• We may learn lessons of the truest wisdom from the meanest leaf or insect, if we would regard it as one of His works.
• Every once in a while he darted into the air, snapped up an insect, and returned to the same perch on the wire whence he had started.
• The plants, furthermore, were liable to many diseases and insect ravages.
• Soon Mike saw a luminous insect, a big fire-fly approaching.
• Such an arrangement tends to make the insect less easily seen than were it to display a continuous area of the same colour.
• The coral insect dreams in its small soul, which is possibly its small stomach, of home and food.
• This is said to change the character of the insect and make a queen of it to replace the one that has died.
• I do not consider it an inventive, or very ingenious insect.
• The reason is said to be that its insect food does not exist there.
• This, if laid within a room for a short while, attracted every insect.
• After twenty little circuits, the insect arrived at the top of the nose.
• Until the grateful insect soared Away, with self-respect restored To find that mutilated part of his Had been so well replaced by artifice.
• With her lips parted to speak she hesitated a second to watch a sort of insect that flashed past on the water, when a splash from the man attracted the girl.
• On one of these occasions he noticed on the cross a pretty, bright insect, of such a brilliant hue that he could not recollect having ever before seen the like in an insect.
• The insect did not remain long quiet, but ran without ceasing backwards and forwards upon the cross, as if it was in pain and wanted to get away.
• In order that people might not recognise me, I turned myself into an insect.
• Any beast, bird, fish, or insect, which can discriminate between long and short, may use the telegraph alphabet, if he have sense enough.

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