"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
1. large insect = duży owad large insect
2. giant insect = olbrzymi owad giant insect
3. huge insect = olbrzymi owad huge insect
4. gigantic insect = gigantyczny owad gigantic insect
5. monstrous insect = potworny owad monstrous insect
  • There was a sudden noise from the garden directly beneath where they were sitting: it sounded like a monstrous insect shedding its skin.
  • After a few moments he began to edge up the slope like some monstrous crawling insect.
  • Some of the soldiers were women, too, though there was no way to tell which with those painted helmets like the heads of monstrous insects.
  • Other demonic and monstrous insects are common in Zionyn as well.
  • He resembled a monstrous insect, and he did not deign to salute.
  • The monstrous insects that had terrorized the town and had killed his friends were now nothing more than a snack to this new creature.
  • From the front end protruded two thick electrodes which looked like the antennae of some monstrous insect.
  • It was stifling inside the body armor, but this was the only protection against the monstrous insects.
  • The tunnel looked like some monstrous insect bore.
  • So much lightning, it looks like a monstrous insect with hundreds of shiny legs.
6. tropical insect = tropikalny owad tropical insect
8. enormous insect = ogromny owad enormous insect
(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
preposición + insect
Kolokacji: 16
of insects • from insects • for insects • with insects • on insects • ...

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