insected

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adjective

Resembling or relating to an insect.

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Meanings

adjectiveinsected (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteResembling or relating to an insect.

    if a Bee wer as big as a Bull, it must have a ſting proportionable, and what miſchiefs do you think ſuch ſtings would do, when we can hardly endure the ſting of that ſmall inſected animal[…]?

    1655, James Howell, “To Dr. T. P.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC

Origin

From insect + -ed.

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