stick insect

Questions about stick insect

What is another word for stick insect?

It depends which stick insect you mean. In the sense “any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies”, the synonyms are walking stick, walkingstick. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of stick insect?

WordNet records no antonym for stick insect. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for stick insect come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of stick insect

• Full entry for stick insectAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for stick insectWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.