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noun
- The Egyptian mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, found in Africa and southern Europe.
- The ichneumon wasp.
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noun
- (inaccurately named) ichneumon wasp
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noun (imag, ines)
- The final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis.
- 1973: "But still," he said to himself, drawing the metamorphoses of a red admiral, egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and on his pad, "what shall I say to him when we meet?" " Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
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noun
- An arthropod in the class Insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.
- Our shed has several infestions, including ants, yellowjackets, and wasps.
- (colloquial) Any small arthropod similar to an insect including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc
- The swamp is swarming with every sort of .
- A contemptible or powerless person.
- The manager's assistant was the worst sort of insect.
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proper noun
- (entomology) a taxonomic class, within subphylum Hexapoda - the insects
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noun - Any stage in the development or lifecycle of arthropods, between molts.
- 1955: We avoided Tourist Homes, country cousins of Funeral ones, old-fashioned, genteel and showerless, with elaborate dressing tables in depressingly white-and-pink little bedrooms, and photographs of the landlady"s children in all their instars. " Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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