Definitions

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  • noun stick insects

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Examples

  • They seem to live, these ideographs, with conscious life; they are moving their parts, moving with a movement as of insects, monstrously, like phasmidae.

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

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