Definition of "insects" []

• Plural form of insect. (noun)

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• "Familiarity with life cycles of insects that are disease vectors helps in timing plantings to avoid the insects’ active periods."
• "Starting to prove that insects fertilize the flowers, his carefully observed facts only served to demonstrate in many cases the reverse -- that _insects could not fertilize_ flowers in the manner he had declared."
• "An extremely curious object of research would be to consider insects in this new point of view, I say _insects_, for I do not conceive that any thing analogous will be found in other species of animals."