Turkish word senses marked with lifeform category "Insects"
Parent categories: Arthropods, Animals, Lifeforms, Life, Nature
Subcategories: Beetles, Butterflies, Cockroaches, Crickets and grasshoppers, Dipterans, Dragonflies and damselflies, Earwigs, Fleas, Hemipterans, Hymenopterans, Moths
Total 49 word senses
- altın sinek (Noun) a fly among the family green bottle fly
- anofel (Noun) anopheles
- arı (Noun) bee
- asker sineği (Noun) soldier fly; any member of the family Stratiomyidae.
- ateş böceği (Noun) firefly
- ağustos böceği (Noun) cicada
- bal arısı (Noun) honeybee
- baykuş sineği (Noun) owl fly, any member of Psychodidae family.
- bit sineği (Noun) ked, louse fly; any member of the family Hippoboscidae.
- boynuz sineği (Noun) horn fly, (Haematobia irritans).
- böcek (Noun) any small invertebrate animal (such as worms, larvae and slugs)
- cibin (Noun) mosquito
- et sineği (Noun) flesh fly; a member of family Sarcophagidae
- evcil sinek (Noun) Synonym of kara sinek (“house fly”)
- eşek arısı (Noun) hornet
- güve (Noun) moth
- hamam böceği (Noun) cockroach (literally: "hammam insect")
- havuç sineği (Noun) carrot fly (Chamaepsila rosae)
- haşere (Noun) insect
- kara sinek (Noun) stable fly
- karasinek (Noun) house fly
- karınca (Noun) ant
- karınca yuvası (Noun) anthill (a home built by ants resembling a small hill)
- kavun sineği (Noun) Myiopardalis pardalina, a fruit fly that is a pest of melons.
- kelebek (Noun) butterfly (insect)
- kene sineği (Noun) tick fly, a fly from the family Hippoboscidae, which feeds on horses and other mammals.
- kitap kurdu (Noun) An avid book reader.
- kraliçe arı (Noun) queen bee
- kulağakaçan (Noun) earwig
- kum sineği (Noun) sandfly (biting insect in genus Phlebotomus)
- kurt sineği (Noun) blow fly
- kımıl (Noun) the stinkbug Aelia rostrata
- lahana sineği (Noun) cabbage fly, maggots of which are pests of cruciferous plants
- mango sineği (Noun) mango fly, a fly that causes myiasis in sub-Saharan Africa
- meyve sineği (Noun) fruit fly (fly belonging to family Drosophilidae or Tephritidae)
- mığı (Noun) mosquito, sandfly
- pervane (Noun) moth
- pire (Noun) flea
- sinek (Noun) fly (insect)
- sivrisinek (Noun) mosquito (small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood)
- soğan sineği (Noun) onion maggot; onion fly
- tahtakurusu (Noun) bedbug
- tatarcık (Noun) sandfly
- titer (Noun) butterfly
- yaban arısı (Noun) wasp
- yusufçuk (Noun) wood dove
- çekirge (Noun) grasshopper, locust
- çeçe (Noun) tsetse
- çizgili sinek (Noun) yellow fewer mosquito; Aedes aegypti.
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