"Insect" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 kūn chóng insect / CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2],堆[dui1]
 chóng zi insect / bug / worm / CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1]
 fù insect / poisonous snake (archaic)
 bìng chóng hài plant diseases and insect pests
 hài chóng injurious insect / pest
 bìng chóng plant diseases and insect pests
 chóng hài insect pest / damage from insects
 chéng chóng imago (adult, sexually mature insect, the final stage of its development)
 zhù chóng insect that eats into wood, books, clothes etc / fig. vermin
 dú chóng poisonous insect (or spider etc) / (slang) junkie
 fēi chóng flying insect / winged insect
 máo zéi insect that damages cereal crop seedlings / (lit. and fig.) vermin / a person harmful to the country and the people
 xū beard / mustache / feeler (of an insect etc) / tassel
 yì chóng beneficial insect
 míng chóng boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest
 yì niǎo beneficial bird (esp. one that preys on insect pests or mice)
 chóng lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures / CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1] / (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic
 gǔ arch. legendary venomous insect / to poison / to bewitch / to drive to insanity / to harm by witchcraft / intestinal parasite
 lǐ wood-boring insect
 dù insect that eats into books, clothing etc / moth-eaten / worm-eaten
 míng boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest
 chài (scorpion) / an insect
 xià chóng bù kě yǐ yǔ bīng a summer insect cannot discuss ice (idiom)
 chóng zāi insect damage / destruction of crops by pest insects
 dǎ chóng to swat an insect / to get rid of intestinal parasite with drugs
 yí bīng ignorant / doubt stemming from ignorance / (a summer insect has no word for ice, Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3])
 bìng chóng wēi hài insect or disease damage to crop
 zhì chóng naiad / larva / developmental stage of insect
 wén chóng dīng yǎo insect bites
 zhé chóng dormant insect
 guō zhōng insect of the Gampsocleis genus (grasshoppers and crickets) / Gampsocleis sinensis
 chán kē Cicadidae, homopterous insect family including cicada
 chóng zhì insect or insect-like small creature (literary) / base person (used as a curse word)
 zuān xīn chóng boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest
 Mǎ shì guǎn Malpighian tubule system (in the insect digestive tract etc)
  sterile insect technique
 fēi zhōu qū yù kūn chóng xué yán jiū shēng fāng àn African Regional Post-graduate Programme in Insect Science
  International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
  wood-consuming insect
 shuǐ shēng kūn chóng water-inhabiting insect
 kūn chóng méi jiè insect vector
  vector insect
  insect killer
 pí a kind of insect (old)
 yān zhī chóng cochineal insect
 tú bái jì a white paint applied to tree trunks to protect the trees from insect damage etc
 hòu chóng seasonal insect (e.g. cicada)
 kē shuì chóng mythological insect that makes people doze off / (fig.) drowsiness / (coll.) person who loves sleeping / sleepaholic
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