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Twig-like creature
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stick insect
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. Any of various insects of the order Phasmatodea that mimic sticks or twigs. n. Any of various insects of the order Phasmatodea that mimic sticks or twigs.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He was built like a basketball player; tall and as thin as a stick insect . ▪ One of them, anyway - the stick insect couldn't have escaped. ▪ The initial resemblance of the ancestral stick insect to a stick must have been very ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies [syn: walking stick , walkingstick ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stick \Stick\, n. [OE. sticke, AS. sticca; akin to stician to stab, prick, pierce, G. stecken a stick, staff, OHG. steccho, Icel. stik a stick. See Stick , v. t..] A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem ...
Usage examples of stick insect.
A classroom going well had its own smell: a hint of pencil shavings, poster paints, long-dead stick insect, glue and, of course, the faint aroma of Billy.
If I am looking directly at a stick insect, 8 inches in front of my nose and in strong daylight, I shall not be fooled by it.
A stick insect, lured by the delicious smell, landed delicately on the skin of the plant, and lowered its head to taste the syrupy juice.
The stick insect, poised vertically along a tree bole near the course Johnnie planned, was several degrees warmer.
He shook his head as he sat up, as oddly articulated as a stick insect.
The shaman balanced on the timbers like a waterlogged stick insect, his glasses hung over one ear, fumbling for his new Smith amp.