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Definition of Insects
1. insect [n] - See also: insect
Medical Definition of Insects
1. Insects are a class, insecta, of arthropoda whose members are characterised by division into three parts: head, thorax, and abdomen. They are the dominant group of animals on earth, several hundred thousand different kinds having been described. They have lived on earth for about 350 million years, as compared with less than 2 million for man. While insects are often commercially valuable and useful as scavengers, many species are harmful, causing enormous losses in agriculture and storage. Three orders, hemiptera, diptera, and siphonaptera, are of medical interest in that they cause disease in man and animal. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insects
Literary usage of Insects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1901)
"Another and a very important work of the Board has PARASITES. been the importation
and distribution of parasitic and predaceous insects. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"and there a species bas had a commercial value, like the lac and dye insects.
In the Heteroptera there are 11 families which are strictly plant feeders ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"and there a species has had a commercial value, like the lac and dye insects.
In the Heteroptera there are 11 families which are strictly plant feeders ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Centipedes, or "hundred-legged worms," and millipedes, or "thousand-legged worms,"
are also nearly related to insects, but they have the thorax and ..."
5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1905)
"Comstock's " Manual for the Study of insects,'1 which during that time has become
the recognized text-book for students of North American Entomology. ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"THE WINGS OF insects. JH COMSTOCK AND JG NEEDHAM. CHAPTER I. An Introduction to
the Study of the Homologies of the Wing- Veins. ..."
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