CLASS INSECTA Synonyms

• (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)

• social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers

• any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species

• a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions

• insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings

• a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing

• jutting or overhanging

• be suspended over or hang over

• fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle

• beat with a beetle

• general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate

• a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine

• a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly

• insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis

• a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

• annoy persistently

• tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information

• diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings

• a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down

• flutter like a butterfly

• cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking

• talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

• leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together

• a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs

• play cricket

• slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.

• any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap

• any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies

• (British usage) mosquito

• wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants

• wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

• two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals

• typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae

• predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey

• a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine

• a skillet made of cast iron

• social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting

• a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination

• insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species

• insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species

• insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species