"insect" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

insect sustantivo

sustantivo + insect
Kolokacji: 14
Insect of Hawaii • scale insect • stick insect • pest insect • night insect • ...
insect + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 21
vertebrate insect host • insect vector • insect bite • insect control • insect pest • ...
insect + verbo
Kolokacji: 41
insect buzzing • insect crawls • insect eats • insect flies • insect makes • ...
verbo + insect
Kolokacji: 33
eat insects • catch insects • attract insects • feed on insects • kill insects • ...
adjetivo + insect
Kolokacji: 71
small insect • large insect • aquatic insect • tiny insect • giant insect • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 16
(3) aquatic, terrestrial
Kolokacji: 2
(4) beneficial, unwanted
Kolokacji: 2
(9) winged, wingless
Kolokacji: 2
(10) predatory, hungry, voracious
Kolokacji: 3
(13) rare, occasional
Kolokacji: 2
(14) blood-sucking, sap-sucking
Kolokacji: 2
1. immature insect = niedojrzały owad immature insect
2. larval insect = larwalny owad larval insect
3. wood-boring insect = drewniany-wiercenie owad wood-boring insect
4. edible insect = jadalny owad edible insect
  • Whatever your pleasure, you have your choice from more than 1,400 edible insects to choose from.
  • We'll get to the bottom of this and look at the different varieties of edible insects on the next page.
  • Another attraction features David Gracer cooking edible insects and offering them to visitors to sample.
  • Then a wren appeared, a tiny bird flitting along a lateral branch, checking it for edible insects.
  • Two well known aspects of the cuisine are the use of chocolate for drinking and various edible insects, especially grasshoppers called chapulines.
  • Next door to that was a shop that sold edible insects and then another that sold snakes.
  • Locusts are edible insects, and are considered a delicacy in some countries.
  • There are 1,417 species of edible insects and nearly 3,000 ethnic groups that currently practice entomophagy around the world [source: Ramos-Elorduy].
  • In the UK, edible insects are calorie-neutral (it takes more energy to collect a bucket of bugs than you gain by eating them).
  • He wants to increase research into the field and host a conference on edible insects in 2012.
(16) mechanical, robotic
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + insect
Kolokacji: 16
of insects • from insects • for insects • with insects • on insects • ...

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