Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Insect-like; having the nature or character of an insect; insectiform: as, insectile animals.
- noun An insect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, or pertaining to
insects
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Examples
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His father held the endcap until the strand had reeled in all of its slack before carefully guiding it into the still waiting insectile appliance.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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The impossibly fast jet planes, shrieking down from the heavens, the dark, insectile shapes of the helicopters, they were all so far removed and so tiny as to be nearly abstract.
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One destroyer shifted, its insectile head rotating toward him.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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His father held the endcap until the strand had reeled in all of its slack before carefully guiding it into the still waiting insectile appliance.
365 tomorrows » Steve Smith : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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An unpleasant, insectile sound emanated from within: wings on metal and the susurrations and bombilations of an angry hive, a venomous swarm.
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One destroyer shifted, its insectile head rotating toward him.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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One destroyer shifted, its insectile head rotating toward him.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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But how do you make an insectile creature sympathetic?
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Although her turn as the evil, insectile model/designer in Zoolander was sheer bliss.
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One destroyer shifted, its insectile head rotating toward him.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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