"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
(16) mechanical, robotic
Kolokacji: 2
1. mechanical insect = mechaniczny owad mechanical insect
  • Bertram Larvan was an inventor who designed a mechanical insect to control insect pests.
  • Soon, he had an army of mechanical insects.
  • They were incredibly small mechanical insects that were more versatile and were able to convert other lifeforms into Cybermen partially.
  • The plot also involves a philosophical dilemma, juxtaposing the values of humanity and the efficiency of mechanical insects.
  • Locke and Jean were seated in the Archon's office, surrounded by the faint, shadowy flutterings of his thousand mechanical insects.
  • The white armour dissipates, the mechanical insects fluttering in a cloud above her head.
  • Christine Burgin presents his impressive reproduction of an 18th-century scientific clock and two dozen small, toylike motorized figures that look like bizarre mechanical insects (Johnson).
  • Elaborate motile amplifying lenses of his own design - contacting the corneal surfaces - projected from his failing eyes like the antennae of a mechanical insect.
  • More intriguing than the big mechanical insects were the real things in little aquariums in the center of the room.
  • Cameras clicked like a plague of mechanical insects; electronic flashes stuttered their brief lightning.
2. robotic insect = zautomatyzowany owad robotic insect
preposición + insect
Kolokacji: 16
of insects • from insects • for insects • with insects • on insects • ...

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