insect
Example Sentences
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This indicates that their diet -- nectar, grain, insects and even other vertebrates -- contained significant amounts of ethanol.
From Science Daily
“Out in the wild, they’re trying to build up their calories through berries and insects. But when they come across garbage in a neighborhood, that’s all the calories they need in one spot.”
From Los Angeles Times
"Whether it's that time we stepped on a nail and or got cellulitis following an insect bite or our C-section wound, or our UTI, or our STI - we all depend on them," she said.
From BBC
A cluster of the insects is even known as a loveliness of ladybugs.
Nearby are additional puzzling landscapes in which other Lilliputian figures, at times the scale of insects, feel overwhelmed by outsize vegetation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
