Synonyms:
insect
Meaning: small air-breathing arthropod
Usage examples
No insect hummed.
Terrifically large, he moved with the lightness of a winged insect.
We sprayed the monsters with fire as workmen spray fruit trees with insect poison.
"That I killed a vile noxious insect, an old pawnbroker woman, of use to no one!...
"We are, indeed!" responded the Educated Insect, fairly hugging the stiff head of the Gump in his joy.
He would exhibit him as the meanest, most contemptible insect that ever crawled on the surface of the earth.
The insect, in its buildings, has its own architectural rules, rules as unchangeable as anatomical peculiarities.
The Spider arrives hurriedly, snatches the giddy-pate and disjoints his shanks, which she empties of their contents, the best part of the insect.
He must be blind indeed, who will not see, at every step in the natural history of this insect, the plainest proofs of the wisdom of its Creator.
Then up and spoke an Egyptian Queen--the daughter of a Pharoah--and she said, 'Our Palace cannot be plucked up by the roots like a leek for the sake of a little insect.