Usually means: Small, six-legged, exoskeleton-bearing arthropods.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word insects:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. insects: Merriam-Webster
  2. insects: Collins English Dictionary
  3. insects: Vocabulary.com
  4. Insects, insect's, insects: Wordnik
  5. insects: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. insects: Wiktionary
  7. insects: Dictionary.com
  8. insects: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Insects (album), Insects (film), Insects (journal), Insects, The Insects: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Insects: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. insects: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  12. insects: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Insects: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Insects: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. insects: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Insects: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Insects: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Insects: HYPP Zoology

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insects: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Insects)

▸ noun:  a 2009 album released by Gibraltarian flamenco/metal quintet Breed 77.
▸ noun:  a surreal comedy film directed by Jan Švankmajer, the film is based on the play Pictures from the Insects' Life by Karel and Josef Čapek.
▸ noun:  a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal of entomology published monthly by MDPI since 2010.


Opposite:
mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians

Types:
beetles, butterflies, moths, crickets, locusts, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, more...

Phrases:
social insects, scale insects, beneficial insects, stick insects, leaf insects, more...

Adjectives:
other, many, smaller, aquatic, social, certain, winged, various, beneficial, injurious, tiny

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Opposite:
mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians

Types:
beetles, butterflies, moths, crickets, locusts, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, more...

Phrases:
social insects, scale insects, beneficial insects, stick insects, leaf insects, cochineal insects, coral insects, lac insects, two-winged insects, two winged insects, spittle insects, wax insects, more...

Adjectives:
other, many, smaller, aquatic, social, certain, winged, various, beneficial, injurious, tiny

Colors:
    black,     yellow,     green,     brown,     red, more...




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