"insect" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In the marshes lives a species of rare carnivorous plant, the sundew, which captures unwary insects.
- Periodically, the device buzzes efficiently - indicating that it has fried an unwary insect.
- Tarma had seen plants whose leaves had snapped shut on unwary insects, flowers whose blooms glowed when the moon rose, and thorny vines whose thorns dripped some unnamable liquid.
- Two swans glided majestically past and ripples spread over the breeze-ruffled surface as a fish captured an unwary insect which alighted above it.
- A fascinating rootless floating plant with trailing stems of fine whorled leaves that conceal tiny bladders which trap any unwary aquatic insects that dare to venture amongst the foliage.
- As Kai once again surveyed the natural amphitheater, its forcescreen spitting as it demolished unwary insects, he could not fail to notice that none of the newly erected domes had been sighted where those of the first encampment had been.
- A bed of pink carnivorous plants, resembling a Vegan weeping flytrap, snapped at unwary insects.
- Smooth-skinned animals sat immobile at the water's edge, their long forked tongues occasionally flicking out to scoop in unwary insects.
- Delicate trigger plants snap up unwary insects amid clumps of snowdaisies and everlastings in a profusion of purple, white and yellow.
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