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insectoid

adj

Etymology

From insect + -oid.

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

Definitions

  1. Insect-like.

  2. An insect-like creature.

    • Two hundred Earth years earlier, a race of Insectoids discovered them as the Squishys were sending their first probes to other planets in their own star system.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for insectoid. 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