SILKWORM Antonyms

• 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

• 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

• small air-breathing arthropod

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

• the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose

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

• an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult

• 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