What does stick insect mean?

stick insect means "any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies".

What is another word for stick insect?

Close synonyms include walking stick, walkingstick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stick insect a common word?

stick insect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

stick insect — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies
Synonymswalking stick walkingstick
Broaderphasmid
Narrowerdiapheromera
Part ofPhasmidae

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