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  • English Word Insculptured Definition Engraved.
  • English Word Inseam Definition To impress or mark with a seam or cicatrix.
  • English Word Inseamed Definition of Inseam
  • English Word Inseaming Definition of Inseam
  • English Word Insearch Definition To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch.
  • English Word Insecable Definition Incapable of being divided by cutting; indivisible.
  • English Word Insect Definition One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
  • English Word Insect Definition Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
  • English Word Insect Definition Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
  • English Word Insect Definition Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
  • English Word Insect Definition Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
  • English Word Insect Definition Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
  • English Word Insecta Definition 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.
  • English Word Insecta Definition In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone. See Hexapoda.
  • English Word Insecta Definition In the most general sense, the Hexapoda, Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined.
  • English Word Insectary Definition A place for keeping living insects.
  • English Word Insectation Definition The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution.
  • English Word Insectator Definition A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic.
  • English Word Insected Definition Pertaining to, having the nature of, or resembling, an insect.
  • English Word Insecticide Definition An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder.
  • English Word Insectile Definition Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects.
  • English Word Insection Definition A cutting in; incisure; incision.
  • English Word Insectivora Definition An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects.
  • English Word Insectivora Definition A division of the Cheiroptera, including the common or insect-eating bats.
  • English Word Insectivore Definition One of the Insectivora.
  • English Word Insectivores Definition of Insectivore
  • English Word Insectivorous Definition Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous.
  • English Word Insectivorous Definition plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc.
  • English Word Insectivorous Definition the Insectivora, and to many bats, birds, and reptiles.
  • English Word Insectologer Definition An entomologist.