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- adjective
Insect -like . - noun science fiction, ufology An insect-like
creature .
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Examples
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In fact, the exterior itself could be described as insectoid, like a Transformer robot that might shapeshift from a vehicle into a mechanical bug.
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The Bafly is orange and kind of insectoid looking.
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I may be trapped in the Negative Zone with Annihilus and his killer horde of insectoid warriors, but I'll be shouting "flame on" again before you can rub two sticks together.
Robert Brenner: "Flame Off!": Hosni Mubarak and the Human Torch Robert Brenner 2011
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There was also an assortment of winged insectoid types of life, although the scientists assured me that they were NOT insects in the way that I knew, and some sort of creature that looked like a cross between a turtle, a lizard, and a walking stick You know, the kind of insect that looks like a stick?
Around a Sun Named Inferno Hugh Barlow 2011
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I may be trapped in the Negative Zone with Annihilus and his killer horde of insectoid warriors, but I'll be shouting "flame on" again before you can rub two sticks together.
Robert Brenner: "Flame Off!": Hosni Mubarak and the Human Torch Robert Brenner 2011
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Cutting to the chase: the plot centres around the revelation of an obscene coming-of-age ceremony for girls, where they are chained down outside the cliffs and left to the mercy of the rather horrible flying/insectoid? aliens.
April Books 6) Nightshade, by Mark Gatiss manjushra 2010
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They are insectoid creatures, hunched over and scuttling, with writhing tentacles where their mouth should be and a grunting, clicking language.
WATCHING: District 9 darkerblogistan 2009
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The ropy black stone was teeming with destroyers—their insectoid figures steaming as they cooled.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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It was a science fiction game, where you could play humans or insectoid aliens or blobs or glider monkeys and shoot each other with lasers or needler weapons or gyrojet guns … I had never seen a role-playing game before (well, maybe the D&D playing scene in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) and it blew my mind.
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The ropy black stone was teeming with destroyers—their insectoid figures steaming as they cooled.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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