insect
An arthropod (in the Insecta class) characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.
Other meanings
An arthropod or invertebrate.
Any small, creeping, crawling, or slithering animal, excluding mammals, birds, and fish.
A kind of
- arthropod
Kinds of insect
- social insect
- beetle
- web spinner
- louse
- bird louse
- flea
- leaf miner
- worker
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "īnsectum".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “insect” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.