insectan.

/ɪnˈsɛktə/

Etymology: Latin, plural of insectum insect n.; formerly also, more fully, insecta animalia ‘cut-waisted animals’.

With plural agreement.

†1.

a. Formerly used as the plural of insect n., in its popular application. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > [noun]

insecta1609

Invertebrata1822

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. vi. ii. 36 The cut or girt wasted (for so I English the word Insecta) are the hornets, waspes, bees, and such like.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xi. i. 310 Well may they be called Insecta: by reason of those cuts and divisions, which some have about the necke.]

1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie Pref. sig. A2 Of all insecta the Bees are chiefe.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §73 So some Insecta which haue Spirit of Life, as Snakes and Silkewormes, are to the touch Cold.

1648 S. Marshall Emmanuel 23 Sometimes the Lord stirres up other creatures to doe it; the Wind, the Sun, the Stars, nay it may be the very insecta animalia..the Rats and Mice, and Frogs, and such poore creatures.

1651 ‘A. B.’ tr. L. Lessius Sir Walter Rawleigh's Ghost 95 Those living creatures, which are commonly called insecta; as flies, gnats, and the like.

†b. Also insectæ, insecta's. Also figurative: cf. insect n. 3. Obsolete.

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1616 B. Jonson Epicœne v. iv, in Wks. I. 599 Take heed of such insectæ hereafter.

1647 J. Hall Poems i. 23 Such Individuums as ye? Such Insecta's.

1650 J. Hall Paradoxes 25 The rayes of these sunnes will..beget abundance of Insecta's and Monsters.

a1658 J. Cleveland Lines in Wks. (1687) 354 Such Insecta's, added on To Creatures by Substraction.

2. Zoology. (With capital initial.) A class of invertebrate animals; formerly (as by Linnæus) made to comprise the whole of the division now called Arthropoda n., or (as by Latreille) all these except the Crustacea and Arachnida; now restricted to that division of these otherwise called Hexapoda, having the body divided or distinguishable into three regions (head, thorax, and abdomen), with six legs (all borne upon the thorax), and usually two or four wings (but in some cases none); constituting the largest class of Arthropoda, and outnumbering all the rest of the animal kingdom, nearly a million species being now known (1988).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun]

insecta1738

Arthropoda1854

epicuticle1933

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun]

insecta1738

1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) Insects, Insecta, in natural history, a smaller sort of animals.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Insecta, Insects. The fifth class in the Linnéan system of zoology.

1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 29 The air-breathing classes of the Myriapoda, the Arachnida, and the Insecta or true Insects.

1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 246 Of pretty much the same form as in the Mandibulate Insecta.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	insecta
释义	insectan. /ɪnˈsɛktə/ Etymology: Latin, plural of insectum insect n.; formerly also, more fully, insecta animalia ‘cut-waisted animals’. With plural agreement. †1. a. Formerly used as the plural of insect n., in its popular application. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > [noun] insecta1609 Invertebrata1822 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. vi. ii. 36 The cut or girt wasted (for so I English the word Insecta) are the hornets, waspes, bees, and such like. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xi. i. 310 Well may they be called Insecta: by reason of those cuts and divisions, which some have about the necke.] 1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie Pref. sig. A2 Of all insecta the Bees are chiefe. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §73 So some Insecta which haue Spirit of Life, as Snakes and Silkewormes, are to the touch Cold. 1648 S. Marshall Emmanuel 23 Sometimes the Lord stirres up other creatures to doe it; the Wind, the Sun, the Stars, nay it may be the very insecta animalia..the Rats and Mice, and Frogs, and such poore creatures. 1651 ‘A. B.’ tr. L. Lessius Sir Walter Rawleigh's Ghost 95 Those living creatures, which are commonly called insecta; as flies, gnats, and the like. †b. Also insectæ, insecta's. Also figurative: cf. insect n. 3. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne v. iv, in Wks. I. 599 Take heed of such insectæ hereafter. View more context for this quotation 1647 J. Hall Poems i. 23 Such Individuums as ye? Such Insecta's. 1650 J. Hall Paradoxes 25 The rayes of these sunnes will..beget abundance of Insecta's and Monsters. a1658 J. Cleveland Lines in Wks. (1687) 354 Such Insecta's, added on To Creatures by Substraction. 2. Zoology. (With capital initial.) A class of invertebrate animals; formerly (as by Linnæus) made to comprise the whole of the division now called Arthropoda n., or (as by Latreille) all these except the Crustacea and Arachnida; now restricted to that division of these otherwise called Hexapoda, having the body divided or distinguishable into three regions (head, thorax, and abdomen), with six legs (all borne upon the thorax), and usually two or four wings (but in some cases none); constituting the largest class of Arthropoda, and outnumbering all the rest of the animal kingdom, nearly a million species being now known (1988). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] insecta1738 Arthropoda1854 epicuticle1933 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] insecta1738 1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) Insects, Insecta, in natural history, a smaller sort of animals. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Insecta, Insects. The fifth class in the Linnéan system of zoology. 1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 29 The air-breathing classes of the Myriapoda, the Arachnida, and the Insecta or true Insects. 1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 246 Of pretty much the same form as in the Mandibulate Insecta. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1609
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