Thesaurus:insect
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: arthropod characterized by six legs edit
Synonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
- ant
- antlion
- aphid
- barklouse
- bee
- beetle
- blackfly
- booklouse
- botfly
- bug
- butterfly
- caddisfly
- caterpillar
- chafer
- chigger
- cockroach
- cranefly
- cricket
- daddy-long-legs (UK)
- damselfly
- dobsonfly
- dragonfly
- dustywing
- earwig
- emmet
- firebrat
- fishfly
- flea
- fly
- fritillary
- gadfly
- grasshopper
- grig
- grub
- hellgrammite
- hornet
- horntail
- horsefly
- ichneumon fly
- katydid
- lacewing
- leafhopper
- locust
- louse
- maggot
- mantis
- mayfly
- mosquito
- moth
- no-see-um
- owlfly
- pismire
- punkie
- rock crawler
- sandfly
- sawfly
- scarab
- screwfly
- silverfish
- termite
- toadbug
- toebiter
- treehopper
- wasp
- webspinner
- weevil
- whitefly
- wireworm
- woodworm
- yellowjacket
Hypernyms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “insect” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “insect” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.