STICK INSECT

Meaning of STICK INSECT in English

also stick-insect

(~s)

A ~ is an insect with a long body and thin legs. It looks like a small stick.

N-COUNT

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STICK INSECT — noun Date: 1854 any of various usually wingless phasmid insects (especially family Phasmatidae) with a long cylindrical body resembling a …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
STICK INSECT — noun : any of various insects of Phasmatidae and related families that are usually wingless with a long round body …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STICK INSECT. — See walking stick (def. 2). [ 1850-55 ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
STICK INSECT — Date: 1854 : any of various usually wingless phasmid insects (especially family Phasmatidae) with a long cylindrical body resembling a …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
STICK INSECT — Function: noun Date: 1854 : any of various usually wingless phasmid insects (esp. family Phasmatidae) with a long cylindrical body …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
STICK INSECT — ■ noun a long, slender, slow-moving insect that resembles a twig. [Family Phasmatidae: many species.]
Concise Oxford English vocab
STICK INSECT — [stick insect] n (1854): any of various usu. wingless insects (esp. family Phasmatidae) with a long cylindrical body resembling a …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
STICK INSECT — noun a large insect with a long thin body that looks like a stick
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STICK INSECT — ˈstick ˌinsect BrE AmE noun [countable] British English a long thin insect that looks like a small stick: young models …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
STICK-INSECT — see stick insect
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STICK INSECT — also stick-insect ( stick insects) A stick insect is an insect with a long body and thin legs. It looks …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STICK-INSECT — see stick insect
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
STICK INSECT — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He was built like a basketball player; tall and as thin as a stick insect …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
STICK INSECT — колющее насекомое (энтомология) колющее насекомое
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
STICK INSECT — энт. колющее насекомое
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
STICK INSECT — энт. колющее насекомое
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
STICK INSECT — колющее насекомое
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
STICK INSECT — энт. колющее насекомое
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
STICK INSECT — энт. колющее насекомое
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
STICK INSECT — палочник, богомол, страшилка ( насекомое, представитель отряда приведеньевых (лат. - Phasmoptera, или Phasmidae); палочники внешне похожи на сухие палочки или …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
STICK INSECT — палочник, богомол, страшилка (насекомое, представитель отряда приведеньевых (лат. - Phasmoptera, или Phasmidae); палочники внешне похожи на сухие палочки или веточки, …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
STICK INSECT — _n. колющее насекомое
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
STICK INSECT — n. колющее насекомое
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
STICK INSECT — колющее насекомое (энтомология) колющее насекомое
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
INSECT — insect- see insecar
Interlingua English vocab
INSECT — Any member of the class Insecta, the largest arthropod class, including nearly 1 million known species (about three-fourths of all …
Английский словарь Британика
STICK
Webster's New International English Dictionary
INSECT — I. ˈinˌsekt noun ( -s ) Etymology: Latin insectum, from neuter of insectus, past participle of insecare to cut into, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
INSECT — (a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
Английский словарь Webster
INSECT — (a.) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
Английский словарь Webster
INSECT — ( a. ) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
INSECT — ( a. ) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
STICK
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
INSECT — — insectival /in'sek tuy"veuhl/ , adj. /in"sekt/ , n. 1. any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
INSECT — n. member of a group of very small invertebrate animals having segmented bodies and three pairs of legs, bug; very …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
STICK — I. ˈstik noun Etymology: Middle English stik, from Old English sticca; akin to Old Norse stik stick, Old English stician …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
INSECT — noun Etymology: Latin insectum, from neuter of insectus, past participle of insecare to cut into, from in- + secare to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
STICK — vt a thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab. 2. stick ·vi to cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation. 3. stick …
Webster English vocab
INSECT — adj like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral. 2. insect ·adj of or pertaining to an insect or insects. 3. insect …
Webster English vocab
STICK — [stick] n [ME stik, fr. OE sticca; akin to ON stik stick, OE stician to stick] (bef. 12c) 1: a …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
INSECT — [in.sect] n [L insectum, fr. neut. of insectus, pp. of insecare to cut into, fr. in- + secare to cut--more …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
INSECT
Britannica English vocabulary
INSECT — insect BrE AmE ˈɪn sekt ▷ insect|s s
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
STICK — / stɪk; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( stuck , stuck / stʌk; NAmE /) PUSH STH IN …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
INSECT — / ˈɪnsekt; NAmE / noun any small creature with six legs and a body divided into three parts. Insects usually …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STICK — I. stick 1 S1 W3 /stɪk/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense and past participle stuck /stʌk/) [ Word Family: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
INSECT — in ‧ sect W3 /ˈɪnsekt/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1600-1700 ; Language: Latin ; Origin: insectum , from …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
STICK — v. (past and past part. stuck) 1 tr. (foll. by in, into, through) insert or thrust (a thing or its …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
INSECT — n. 1 a any arthropod of the class Insecta, having a head, thorax, abdomen, two antennae, three pairs of thoracic …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
STICK — v. (past and past part. stuck) 1 tr. (foll. by in, into, through) insert or thrust (a thing or its …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
INSECT — n. 1 a any arthropod of the class Insecta, having a head, thorax, abdomen, two antennae, three pairs of thoracic …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
STICK — 1. n.1 a a short slender branch or length of wood broken or cut from a tree. b this trimmed …
Oxford English vocab
INSECT — n.1 a any arthropod of the class Insecta, having a head, thorax, abdomen, two antennae, three pairs of thoracic legs, …
Oxford English vocab
INSECT — ( insects) An insect is a small animal that has six legs. Most insects have wings. Ants, flies, butterflies, and …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STICK
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
INSECT — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES insect/mosquito/bug etc repellent stick insect ▪ young models who look like stick insects are very …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
INSECT — [noun] [C] - a type of very small air-breathing animal with six legs, a body divided into three parts and …
Cambridge English vocab
INSECT — n. Any member of the class Insecta, the largest arthropod class, including nearly 1 million known species (about three-fourths of …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
INSECT — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ flying , winged ▪ aquatic ▪ beneficial ▪ Unfortunately, pesticides kill off beneficial ~s as well as …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
STICK — INDEX: 1. to join one thing to another, especially using glue 2. when one thing sticks to another 3. something …
Longman Activator English vocab
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Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
STICK — v. 1 pierce, thrust, stab, transfix, pin, spike, impale, spear, spit, run through, poke, gore, jab, prick, puncture, punch, penetrate, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
STICK
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
STICK
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