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insectoid

insectoid adjective: insect-like.

Adjective

insectoid (not comparable)

  1. Insect-like.
    • Living beyond the Omega-4 mass relay in the Terminus Systems, the mysterious Collector species is glimpsed so rarely as to be taken for a myth by most in galactic society. In reality, Collectors are human-sized insectoid bipeds and can resemble massive winged beetles. They are a terrifying force in...2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Collectors Codex entry

Noun

insectoid (plural insectoids)

  1. An insect-like creature.
    • Two hundred Earth years earlier, a race of Insectoids discovered them as the Squishys were sending their first probes to other planets in their own star system.2017, A.K. Brown, Humans on the Menu (Champagne Universe Series: Book 2), page 24

Forms of insectoid

pluralinsectoids

Origin of insectoid

From insect + -oid.

Questions about insectoid

What does insectoid mean?
Insectoid means insect-like.
What part of speech is insectoid?
Insectoid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near insectoid in the dictionary

  1. insectkind
  2. insectless
  3. insectlike
  4. insectocutor
  5. insectocutors
  6. insectoid
  7. insectoidal
  8. insectoids
  9. insectologer
  10. insectologers
  11. insectologic

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