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insecta
insecta is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of tracheae, 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, n. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 4 senses
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- 1plural noun
One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of tracheae, 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.
- 2noun
In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone. See Hexapoda.
- 3noun
In the most general sense, the Hexapoda, Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined.
- 4noun
insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species
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