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Air vessel
unknown · 78% connection
A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Antenna
noun · 78% connection
A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually fo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Aptera
n. pl. · 78% connection
Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnaen order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, cent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Be
verb · 78% connection
To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Beak
noun · 78% connection
The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Bite
verb · 78% connection
To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Butterwort
noun · 78% connection
A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Certain
adjective · 78% connection
Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Chalcid fly
unknown · 78% connection
One of a numerous family of hymenopterous insects (Chalcididae. Many are gallflies, others are parasitic on insects.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Chalcidfly
noun · 78% connection
any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injuriou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Chelicera
noun · 78% connection
One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous wit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Clinker-built
adjective · 78% connection
Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like cla…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Coccus
noun · 78% connection
One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Coleoptera
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Entomophaga
n. pl. · 78% connection
One of a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvae feed parasitically upon living insects. See Ichneumon, 2.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Entomophilous
adjective · 78% connection
Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
Excise
noun · 78% connection
In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spiri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: structure, overlaps, mouth, certain, insects.
