Contextualizebeta

insected

adj

Etymology

From insect + -ed.

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

Definitions

  1. Resembling or relating to an insect.

    • if a Bee wer as big as a Bull, it must have a ſting proportionable, and what miſchiefs do you think ſuch ſtings would do, when we can hardly endure the ſting of that ſmall inſected animal[…]?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for insected. 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