MOTHS Antonyms

• 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

• 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

• a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth

• a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work

• A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria and yellow fever.

• 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