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单词 insectile
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insectileadj.1n.

/ɪnˈsɛktʌɪl//ɪnˈsɛktɪl/
Etymology: < Latin insectum insect n.: compare Latin sectilis, < sectus cut.
A. adj.1
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of an insect; consisting of insects; also figurative resembling an insect, infesting like insects. Now rare.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [adjective]
insectile1654
entomological1815
entomic1862
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [adjective] > resembling
insectile1654
entomoid1835
insecty1859
insectiform1888
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [adjective] > infesting like insects
insectile1654
1654 H. Hammond Of Fundamentals in Misc. Theol. Wks. II. (1849) 118 Insectile animals, for want of blood, run all out into legs.
1660 E. Stillingfleet Irenicum i. ii. 68 As he observes from Aristotle in Insectile Animals, the want of blood was the cause they run out into so many legs.
1667 H. Oldenburg in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 412 All these [works of Aristotle] are..overwhelmed and degraded by the swarms of Insectile Systemes and dilute Commentaries.
1877 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VII. lxxxi. 266 The insectile noise.
1891 Voice (N.Y.) 21 May They [orchards] are not responsible for the insectile armies that may attack them.
B. n.
= insect n. Obsolete. (Cf. reptile n.1)
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of
crabc1000
crab-fisha1400
crayfish1509
insect1601
many-foot1601
insectile1615
condylope1835
condylopod1855
arthropod1861
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 546 In those creatures which want eye-lids, as Locusts, Lobsters, Crabs, & such like insectiles, nature hath prouided certaine cauities, whereinto in the time of their repose..they receiue their whole eies.
1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ (ed. 2) 264 In those several Transformations and Renovations of the Ant, and Silk-worm, and many such Insectiles.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

insectileadj.2

Etymology: < in- prefix4 + sectile adj.
Obsolete. rare.
Incapable of being cut or divided.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > [adjective] > united into a whole > not divided, separated, or split > incapable of being divided
indivisiblec1380
indepartable1393
unpartable?c1425
undivisible1495
inseparable?1504
unpartible?c1510
undividible1569
impartible1586
undissoluble1587
individable1601
undividual1603
undissolvable1611
individuate1621
insecable1623
individuous1624
insectile1635
indispertiblea1641
indisseverablea1641
individuated1689
indivisivea1706
partless1705
unanalysable1788
imparticipable1789
indecomposable1807
indecomponible1809
indissoluble1841
disseparablea1849
1635 D. Person Varieties v. 62 Atoms..are little insectile bodies..not unlike the Moates which wee see to tumble and rowle about in the Sunne beames.
a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. iii. 189 Nor can that be destroyed..which, being insectile, has nothing to divide or oppose it.
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