Insecta
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Insecta
1570–80; < New Latin, Latin, plural of insectum insect
Example Sentences
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A study published earlier this year found that over 3,000 ethnic groups across 128 countries eat 2,205 species of Insecta, with everything from caterpillars to locusts appearing in dishes of every description.
From Salon • May 30, 2024
Future studies will examine more basal families as well as families whose monophyly is dubious, including more genera into the analysis, to advance the phylogenetic understanding of Dermaptera and, ultimately of Polyneoptera and Insecta.
From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2024
Anyone who has thrilled to the shrilling of cicadas or marvelled at the bizarre behaviour of praying mantises will be entranced by this homage to the class Insecta.
From Nature • Dec. 4, 2018
One painting, Insecta, 1985, is full of chrysalises, cockchafers and stag beetles, with a red cicada clinging to a scrubby patch of blue ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
One thing I had learned for sure: You could not win when it came to class Insecta, order Lepidoptera.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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