Usually means: Insect mimicking sticks for camouflage.
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  1. stick insect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stick insect: Merriam-Webster
  3. stick insect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stick insect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stick insect: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stick insect: Vocabulary.com
  7. stick insect: Wordnik
  8. stick insect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stick insect: Wiktionary
  10. stick insect: Dictionary.com
  11. Stick Insect, Stick insect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. stick insect: Rhymezone
  13. stick insect: FreeDictionary.org
  14. stick insect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. stick insect: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. stick insect: Encyclopedia

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  1. Stick insect: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stick insect)

▸ noun:  Any of various insects of the order Phasmida that mimic sticks or twigs.

Similar:
walkingstick, walking stick, ghost insect, phasmid, phasmatodean, leaf insect, mimic beetle, jungle nymph, insect, true bug, more...

Types:
Indistick insect, banded stick insect, more...

Phrases:
walking stick insect, water stick insect, Lord Howe Island stick insect, more...

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Similar:
walkingstick, walking stick, ghost insect, phasmid, phasmatodean, leaf insect, mimic beetle, jungle nymph, insect, true bug, more...

Types:
Indistick insect, banded stick insect, more...

Phrases:
walking stick insect, water stick insect, Lord Howe Island stick insect, more...



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