"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
1. social insect = stadny owad social insect
2. parasitic insect = pasożytniczy owad parasitic insect
3. soft-bodied insect = soft-bodied owad soft-bodied insect
4. herbivorous insect = roślinożerny owad herbivorous insect
5. carnivorous insect = mięsożerny owad carnivorous insect
6. squashed insect = zgnieciony owad squashed insect
  • Sometimes the clouds of mayflies have caused power outages as well as causing roads to become slippery with squashed insects.
  • When I was a kid (50 years ago), if you drove anywhere in the summer, the windscreen got covered with squashed insects.
  • The stain looked like a squashed tropical insect.
  • But now our car is inching by a black minivan, belly up, its doors splayed like the broken wings of a squashed insect.
  • Motionless on the hospital floor, with smears of blood marking the space around it, it seemed more like a squashed insect than the ex-home of a human creature.
  • The voice rose abruptly into a wild shriek, and Tanase collapsed and writhed like a squashed insect upon the earth.
  • But Fehos' transpex imploded at 39 km down, with a crack heard on the radios of the world, and the craft, a squashed insect, plunged into the magma.
  • Many bodies lay sprawled on the ground like squashed insects, arms and legs stiffened at odd angles.
  • She wore a brilliant orange dress with tie-dyed splotches of purple like squashed insects.
  • Children can also see giant digital photographs of moths and art made from squashed insects.
7. adult insect = dorosły owad adult insect
8. plant-eating insect = roślinożerny owad plant-eating insect
9. unwary insect = owad nieroztropnych unwary insect
(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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