"stick insect" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: stick insects [plural]
Etymology: Compound of stick + insect. Etymology templates: {{com|en|stick|insect}} stick + insect Head templates: {{en-noun}} stick insect (plural stick insects)
  1. Any of various insects of the order Phasmida that mimic sticks or twigs. Categories (lifeform): Stick insects Synonyms: stick bug, walking stick, stick-insect Derived forms: Lord Howe Island stick insect Translations (insects of the order Phasmida): কাঠিপোকা (kaṭhipōka) (Bengali), insecte bastó (Catalan), ᏍᎩᎾ ᎤᎩᎸᏗ (sgina ugilvdi) (Cherokee), 竹節蟲 (Chinese Mandarin), 竹节虫 (zhújiéchóng) (Chinese Mandarin), wandelende tak (Dutch), fasmo (Esperanto), sauvasirkka (Finnish), phasme [masculine] (French), insecto pau [masculine] (Galician), Gespenstschrecke [feminine] (German), φασματώδη (fasmatódi) [feminine] (Greek), botsáska (Hungarian), cipíneach [masculine] (Irish), fasmide [masculine] (Italian), ナナフシ (nanafushi) (Japanese), 대벌레 (daebeolle) (Korean), (Maori), whē (Maori), wónikǫsí (Navajo), କାଠିପୋକ (kāṭhipoka) (Odia), patyczak [masculine] (Polish), bicho-pau [masculine] (Portuguese), inseto-pau [masculine] (Portuguese), fasmide [feminine, plural] (Romanian), па́лочник (páločnik) [masculine] (Russian), fásmido [masculine] (Spanish), insecto palo [masculine] (Spanish), vandrande pinne [common-gender] (Swedish), bọ que (Vietnamese), pryf brigyn [masculine] (Welsh)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.