"social insect" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: social insects [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} social insect (plural social insects)
  1. Any insect that shares shelter, defence and food, and reproduces cooperatively Translations (insects which live socially): yhteiskuntahyönteinen (Finnish), insecte social [masculine] (French), owad społeczny [masculine] (Polish), inseto social [masculine] (Portuguese), обще́ственное насеко́мое (obščéstvennoje nasekómoje) [neuter] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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