Relatively small and simple animals that have a rigid external skeleton, three body sections, three pairs of legs, and antennae. These organisms are the most abundant group of eukaryotes on the Earth.

An animal that breathes air and has a head, thorax, and abdomen

c. 1600, from Latin (animal) insectum "(animal) with a notched or divided body," literally "cut into," noun use of neuter past participle of insectare "to cut into, to cut up, [..]

type of animal that breathes air and has a body divided into three segments, with six legs and usually wings.

Flying or crawling arthropod posessing six legs in adult form. E.g. Weevils.

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a very small animal with six legs, Ants, bees and beetles are insects

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a small arthropod animal of the class Insecta. Insects have an adult stage characterised by three pairs of legs on the thorax, a body divided into head, thorax, and abdomen, and usually two pairs of w [..]

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Small invertebrate (no back boned) animals that are more or less obviously made up of segments.

The class Insecta, in the phylum Arthropoda, whose members are characterized by division into three parts: head, Thorax, and Abdomen. They are the dominant group of Animals on earth; several hundred t [..]

A genus of Insect in the mealybug Family Pseudococcidae.

Six-legged animals in the Arthropod Phylum. Insects also have an exoskeleton (hard part is on the outside) and three main body sections (head, thorax, and abodmen). Most insects also have wings, thoug [..]

an animal that has 3 body segments (head, thorax, abdomen), six legs, two pairs of wings (may be missing in some insects), and one pair of antennae

an invertebrate animal in the phylum Arthropoda, Class Insecta; insects are arthropods classified by three characteristics: (1)segmented body (head, thorax, and abdomen); (2)only three pairs of legs; (3)one or two pairs of wings though some are wingless; imported fire ants are insects in the Order Hymenoptera along with bees and wasps.

an animal of class Hexapoda (or Insecta) of subphylum Uniramia of phylum Arthropoda. Generally, they have three segments to the body, (head, thorax, and abdomen) with one pair of antennae attached to [..]

Members of the animal kingdom; all mature insects have six legs and three body segments.

An arthropod with six legs and a three sectioned body, a head, thorax and abdomen.

An arthropod in the class Insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton. *(''Colloquial'' 1,2)