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noun

Insecta n. pl.

(Zool.) One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of tracheae, opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See Insect, n.

(Zool.) In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone. See Hexapoda.

(Zool.) In the most general sense, the Hexapoda, Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined. Note: The typical Insecta, or hexapod insects, are divided into several orders, viz.: Hymenoptera, as the bees and ants; Diptera, as the common flies, gnats, and mosquitos; Aphaniptera, or fleas; Lepidoptera, or moths and butterflies; Neuroptera, as the ant-lions and hellgamite; Coleoptera, or beetles; Hemiptera, as bugs, lice, aphids; Orthoptera, as grasshoppers and cockroaches; Pseudoneuroptera, as the dragon flies and termites; Euplexoptera, or earwigs; Thysanura, as the springtails, podura, and lepisma. See these words in the Vocabulary.

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... on in a multitude of Latin words, which testify by their terminations that they were, and were felt to be, Latin at their first employment; though now they are such no longer. Thus Bacon uses generally, I know not whether always, 'insecta' for 'insects'; and 'chylus' for 'chyle'; Bishop Andrews 'nardus' for 'nard'; Spenser 'zephyrus', and not 'zephyr'; so 'interstitium' (Fuller) preceded 'interstice'; 'philtrum' (Culverwell) 'philtre'; 'expansum' (Jeremy Taylor) 'expanse'; 'preludium' (Beaumont, Psyche), 'prelude'; ...

— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench

... of the Annulosa, the Insecta and the Arachnida, are represented in the Coal, either by existing genera, or by forms differing from existing genera ...

— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

... class. Hence the difficulties which have embarrassed the naturalists, who adopt the Linnaean classification, in their endeavours to discover determinate characters of distinction between the vermes and the insecta. ...

— Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... Formes of pure celestiall bodies mixt with grosse terrestrials; earthly animals with watery; sauage beasts with tame; fowles of prey with home-bred; these again with riuer fowles; reptiles with things gressible; aery insecta with earthly; also things naturall with artificiall." —GUILLIM'S "Display of ...

— The Handbook to English Heraldry • Charles Boutell

... and Salvin's Biologia Centrali-Americana, Insecta, Coleoptera, vol. iii. part ii., and ...

— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace