stick insect

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Insectsstick insectˈstick ˌinsect noun [countable] British English HBIa long thin insect that looks like a small stick young models who look like stick insects (=are very thin)Examples from the Corpusstick insect• He was built like a basketball player; tall and as thin as a stick insect.• When I was young I was like a stick insect, then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight.• The initial resemblance of the ancestral stick insect to a stick must have been very remote.• One of them, anyway - the stick insect couldn't have escaped.

单词	stick insect
释义	stick insect From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Insectsstick insectˈstick ˌinsect noun [countable] British English HBIa long thin insect that looks like a small stick young models who look like stick insects (=are very thin)Examples from the Corpusstick insect• He was built like a basketball player; tall and as thin as a stick insect.• When I was young I was like a stick insect, then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight.• The initial resemblance of the ancestral stick insect to a stick must have been very remote.• One of them, anyway - the stick insect couldn't have escaped.
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