"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. stinging insect = kłując owada stinging insect
2. poisonous insect = jadowity owad poisonous insect
  • All the better to recognize sensation caused by other objects, such as, say, poisonous insects crawling up our arms.
  • As he rose, the swarm of poisonous insects took to the air.
  • He made it sound like the name of a poisonous insect.
  • Now she was no more important than some poisonous insect, to be avoided or, if the opportunity came, squashed flat.
  • On land, as we have seen, a poisonous insect serves the same function.
  • Nefer watched the dart leave his hand, and fly in like a poisonous insect.
  • It seemed to come quite slowly, like some poisonous flying insect.
  • Yet she thought that his was the fatal beauty of a snake or a poisonous insect.
  • Burning gets rid of the leaves and the poisonous insects.
  • By masquerading as poisonous insects, they avoid attacks from birds that might otherwise eat them.
3. harmful insect = szkodliwy owad harmful insect
4. destructive insect = niszczący owad destructive insect
5. noxious insect = trujący owad noxious insect
6. loathsome insect = wstrętny owad loathsome insect
7. venomous insect = jadowity owad venomous insect
8. harmless insect = niegroźny owad harmless 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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