Frequently in form walkingstick. Any of various insects of the order Phasmida having elongated bodies resembling twigs or pieces of plant stem. Also…

any of various large tropical insects constituting the family Phyllidae, related to the stick insects, which are strikingly camouflaged to resemble…

Zoology. One or other of the insects or animals distinguished by the epithet spectre- (see compounds 2), esp. an insect of the family Phasmidae.

any of various insects of the order Phasmida having elongated bodies resembling twigs or pieces of plant stem; also figurative; cf. walking stick, n.…

Entomology. A spectre-insect (Phasma).

Entomology. An insect of the order Phasmida, which comprises the leaf insects and stick insects, or of the family Phasmidae, comprising the stick…

(a) a stick insect, esp. Diapheromera femorata (family Diapheromeridae); †(b) an assassin bug, Emesaya brevipennis (family Reduviidae), having an…

the stick-insect or ‘walking-stick’.

†(a) a wolf (obsolete rare); (b) any of various insects, esp. a stick insect; cf. devil's horse n. (b) at devil, n. compounds 3d.