0 a type of very small animal with six legs, a body divided into three parts and usually two pairs of wings, or, more generally, any similar very small animal:
1 a type of small animal with six legs, a body divided into three parts, and often two pairs of wings, for example, an ant, beetle, or butterfly
Some trees exude from their bark a sap that repels insect parasites.
Why did you stamp on that insect?
Outside the tent I could hear the constant drone of insects.
Pollinaria are natural markers of insect visits to orchids, as there are no other obvious means by which they would be acquired by insects.
In its representational space, two new insect objects could be made visible.
For all other insects, typically only one adult emerged from each seed.
