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insectdom

noun

Etymology

From insect + -dom.

  1. calqued from ἔντομον
  2. derived from īnsectum
  3. borrowed from insecte
  4. suffixed as insectdom — “insect + dom”

Definitions

  1. The condition of being an insect

    The condition of being an insect; insects in general.

    • Perhaps nowhere else in insectdom is such an extravagantly flamboyant display of systemized pattern on parade.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for insectdom. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA