stick insect

stick insect

English

Alternative forms

• stick-insect

A stick insect from Birbhum

Etymology

Compound of stick +‎ insect.

Noun

stick insect (plural stick insects)

1. Any of various insects of the order Phasmida that mimic sticks or twigs.

   Synonyms: stick-bug, walking stick

Translations

insects of the order Phasmida

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bengali: কাঠিপোকা (bn) (kaṭhipoka) Catalan: insecte bastó Cherokee: ᏍᎩᎾ ᎤᎩᎸᏗ (sgina ugilvdi) Chinese: Mandarin: 竹節蟲／竹节虫 (zh) (zhújiéchóng) Dutch: wandelende tak Esperanto: fasmo Finnish: sauvasirkka French: phasme (fr) m Galician: insecto pau m German: Gespenstschrecke (de) f Greek: φασματώδη f (fasmatódi) Hungarian: botsáska (hu) Irish: cipíneach m Italian: fasmide m Japanese: ナナフシ (nanafushi) Korean: 대벌레 (daebeolle) Maori: rō, whē Navajo: wónikǫsí Oriya: କାଠିପୋକ (or) (kaṭhipokô) Polish: patyczak (pl) m Portuguese: bicho-pau (pt) m, inseto-pau m Romanian: fasmide f pl Russian: па́лочник (ru) m (páločnik) Spanish: fásmido m, insecto palo m Swedish: vandrande pinne c Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: bọ que (vi) Welsh: pryf brigyn m

Further reading

• stick insect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia