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Definition of Insecta
1. Noun. Insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species.
Group relationships: Arthropoda, Phylum Arthropoda
Member holonyms: Mantophasmatodea, Order Mantophasmatodea, Mecoptera, Order Mecoptera, Collembola, Order Collembola, Order Protura, Protura, Coleoptera, Order Coleoptera, Embiodea, Embioptera, Order Embiodea, Order Embioptera, Anoplura, Order Anoplura, Mallophaga, Order Mallophaga, Order Siphonaptera, Siphonaptera, Diptera, Order Diptera, Hymenoptera, Order Hymenoptera, Isoptera, Order Isoptera, Order Orthoptera, Orthoptera, Order Phasmatodea, Order Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmida, Exopterygota, Hemimetabola, Subclass Exopterygota, Dictyoptera, Order Dictyoptera, Hemiptera, Order Hemiptera, Corrodentia, Order Corrodentia, Order Psocoptera, Psocoptera, Ephemerida, Ephemeroptera, Order Ephemerida, Order Ephemeroptera, Order Plecoptera, Plecoptera, Neuroptera, Order Neuroptera, Odonata, Order Odonata, Order Trichoptera, Trichoptera, Order Thysanura, Thysanura, Order Thysanoptera, Thysanoptera, Dermaptera, Order Dermaptera, Lepidoptera, Order Lepidoptera
Generic synonyms: Class
Definition of Insecta
1. n. pl. One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antennæ, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of tracheæ, opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See Insect,
Medical Definition of Insecta
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Insecta
Literary usage of Insecta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1835)
"insecta. The Insects are divided into twelve orders. Class. insecta.. Genut.
Order. 1. Myriapoda 2. ..."
2. Anatomy of the Invertebrata by Carl Th. Ernst Siebold, Hermann Stannius, Waldo Irving Burnett (1854)
"insecta. CLASSIFICATION. § 321. As anatomists have been abla to examine, with
few exceptions, nearly all the orders and families of the insecta, ..."
3. Psyche by Cambridge Entomological Club (1893)
"... abdominal segments or such structures no longer exist in the insecta and must
be sought for in the more ancestral Articulata (Annelida presumably). ..."
4. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1826)
"Experiments in consort touching the insecta. The nature of vivification is very
worthy the inquiry : and as the nature of things is commonly better ..."
5. The Zoological Miscellany: Being Descriptions of New Or Interesting Animals by William Elford Leach, Richard P. Nodder (1817)
"... On the Characters of the Class insecta, and of the Orders composing it.
insecta, CHARACTER. Corpus 3-partitum, ë capite ..."
6. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"insecta. The insecta is a distinct group marked off from all other arthropods by
several important characters. The appendages show no signs of a ..."
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