"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. dead insect = zdechły owad dead insect
2. live insect = żywy owad live insect
3. annoying insect = denerwując owada annoying insect
4. troublesome insect = nieznośny owad troublesome insect
5. bothersome insect = kłopotliwy owad bothersome insect
  • Mud, caked on to its body, also protects it from bothersome insects.
  • Will I be able to use the electronic book to squash bothersome insects?
  • Jonathan the Jerk was paying for Nora's days of pampering while he treated his own wife like a bothersome insect.
  • There weren't many bothersome insects; just big, blundery ones, and the small darting batlike reptiles were keeping them under control.
  • She moved sluggishly, brushing at him with her left hand as if he was a bothersome insect intruding on her sleep.
  • Doctor, that we dispose of this bothersome insect and be done with the matter.
  • Unconsciously, men shook their heads sharply, as though to repel a bothersome insect.
  • He thrashed with his hand, as if to bat away a bothersome insect.
  • Some predators Josh liked, and spiders were among that number: they preyed on bothersome insects.
  • Little bothersome insects waiting to be swatted by you.
(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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