Need another word that means the same as “insect”? Find 3 synonyms and 30 related words for “insect” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Insect” are: dirt ball, louse, worm
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “insect” as a noun can have the following definitions:
dirt ball | Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people. |
louse | Either of two small wingless parasitic insects that live on the skin of mammals and birds. |
worm | Used in names of other animals that resemble worms in some way e g slow worm shipworm. Food for worms. |
ant | Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers. |
arachnid | Relating to or denoting arachnids. |
bee | An insect of a large group to which the honeybee belongs including many solitary as well as social kinds. A sewing bee. |
bug | A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use. A custom program we used developed a bug. |
butterfly | Flutter like a butterfly. A social butterfly. |
caterpillar | A vehicle with caterpillar tracks. |
cockroach | Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests. |
dragonfly | Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. |
exterminator | A person or thing that destroys something completely. He became an exterminator of pumas tracking them down in dark caverns. |
flea | Any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap. |
grasshopper | A cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao. |
hornet | Large stinging paper wasp. |
housefly | Common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases. |
infest | Live on or in a host, as of parasites. The house is infested with cockroaches. |
insectivorous | (of an animal) feeding on insects, worms, and other invertebrates. |
itch | A skin disease or condition of which itching is a symptom. The bite itched like crazy. |
larva | The active immature form of an insect, especially one that differs greatly from the adult and forms the stage between egg and pupa, e.g. a caterpillar or grub. |
louse | Wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals. |
mite | A slight but appreciable amount. |
mosquito | A slender long-legged fly with aquatic larvae. The bite of the bloodsucking female can transmit a number of serious diseases including malaria and elephantiasis. |
moth | A clothes moth. I store my sweaters in plastic bags to protect them from moths. |
nit | A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source. You stupid nit. |
pest | A serious sometimes fatal infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal. An effective method for controlling insect pests. |
pesticide | A chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects. |
scorpion | Used in names of arachnids and insects resembling a scorpion e g false scorpion water scorpion. |
snail | Edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic. We went snailing in the summer. |
sparrow | Any of a number of birds that resemble true sparrows in size or colour. |
spider | An object resembling a spider especially one having numerous or prominent legs or radiating spokes. A treecreeper spidered head first down the tree trunk. |
tarantula | Large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement. |
termite | A small, pale soft-bodied insect that lives in large colonies with several different castes, typically within a mound of cemented earth. Many kinds feed on wood and can be highly destructive to trees and timber. |
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