insect
Example Sentences
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That insect, a central player in the third episode, titled “Feast of Flesh,” gives the amnesiac Spear a purpose.
From Salon
Their highly organized societies raise an obvious question: how did insects with such advanced social systems evolve from solitary ancestors that closely resembled modern cockroaches?
From Science Daily
Covered in fractal patterns like “the symmetrical innards of a halved cabbage,” the giant humanoid insect reclines, “a god-sized man sleeping atop the quilt of the land.”
Semi-natural grassland also continues to be lost, despite being seen as a priority habitat and vital for a whole range of plants, fungi, insects, ground-nesting birds, small mammals and reptiles.
From BBC
Though it no longer displays an array of edible insects, the food is just as good.
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