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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pest |
| Synonyms: | ant, bedbug, centipede, flea, fly, foxes, insect, lice, mice, mosquito, rat, rodent, snake, termite, weasel |
| Main Entry: | bug |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insect |
| Synonyms: | ant, beetle, cootie, flea, gnat, louse, pest, vermin |
| Notes: | a bug is a particular kind of insect, specifically belonging to the order Hemiptera (tough leathery forewings attached to the body - like ladybugs, beetles) while insects generally belong to the class Insecta, which have bodies in three segments, usually two pairs or wings and three pairs of legs (like bees, mosquitoes); spiders are not technically insects because they have four pairs of legs insect (from Latin animal insectum) literally meant 'divided animal' or 'cut up or into' from the segments of its body (head, thorax, abdomen) - the common word being 'bug'; insect is any of an extremely large group of small invertebrate animals - and most undergo metamorphosis while bug denotes a special group of insects with beaklike sucking mouth parts and partly membranous forewings |
| Main Entry: | insect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bug |
| Synonyms: | ant, aphid, arachnid, arthropod, bedbug, bee, beetle, bumblebee, butterfly, cockroach, cootie, daddy longlegs, dragonfly, flea, fly, fruit fly, gnat, grasshopper, hornet, ladybug, louse, mite, mite, mosquito, moth, pest, praying mantis, spider, termite, tick, vermin, yellowjacket |
| Notes: | a bug is a particular kind of insect, specifically belonging to the order Hemiptera (tough leathery forewings attached to the body - like ladybugs, beetles) while insects generally belong to the class Insecta, which have bodies in three segments, usually two pairs or wings and three pairs of legs (like bees, mosquitoes); spiders are not technically insects because they have four pairs of legs insect (from Latin animal insectum) literally meant 'divided animal' or 'cut up or into' from the segments of its body (head, thorax, abdomen) - the common word being 'bug'; insect is any of an extremely large group of small invertebrate animals - and most undergo metamorphosis while bug denotes a special group of insects with beaklike sucking mouth parts and partly membranous forewings one major difference between insect, spider, and crustacean is the antennae; one pair on most insects, none on spiders, and two pairs for crustaceans |
| Main Entry: | riffraff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rabble |
| Synonyms: | commonality, commoners, dregs of society, gang, gathering, hoi polloi, lower class, mob, one-percenters, outcast, rank and file, ring, scum, trash, undesirables, vermin |
| Main Entry: | scum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people who are bad, despicable |
| Synonyms: | curs, dregs, lowest, mass, mob, proletariat, rabble, riffraff, rubbish*, scum of the earth, trash*, unwashed, vermin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dregs of society |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | despicable people |
| Synonyms: | offscourings of society, one-percenters, rabble, riffraff, rubbish, scum of the earth, swinish multitude, trash, undesirables, vermin |
| Main Entry: | snake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reptile |
| Synonyms: | serpent, vermin |
| Notes: | snake's name comes from Old High German and Norse words meaning 'crawler' or 'creeper,' from Latin meaning 'crawl'; serpent and snake mean the same thing, and reptile is the general word for the class that includes snakes |
| Main Entry: | mouse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rodent |
| Synonyms: | murine, vermin |
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