stick insect
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stick insect
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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The feisty Lord Howe Island stick insect crawling on the gloved hand of Kyle Kassel, a keeper at the San Diego Zoo, had no idea that he shouldn’t exist.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2024
They released her into a plastic container containing soil and placed a stick insect egg inside.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023
A pet stick insect surprised its owner when she noticed it was half male and half female - known as a gynandromorph.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2022
In 1883, one of the latter’s early editors, the entomologist and palaeontologist Samuel Hubbard Scudder, published a description of a giant fossil stick insect discovered in coal deposits in France by another entomologist, Charles Brongniart.
From Nature ● Nov. 4, 2019
The walking stick insect is great at camouflage.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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