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            {
              "etymologies": [
                "early 17th century (originally denoting any small cold-blooded creature with a segmented body): from Latin (animal) insectum \u2018segmented (animal)\u2019 (translating Greek z\u014dion entomon), from insecare \u2018cut up or into\u2019, from in- \u2018into\u2019 + secare \u2018to cut\u2019"
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                  "dialects": [
                    "American English"
                  ],
                  "phoneticNotation": "respell",
                  "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8in\u02ccsek(t)"
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                    "American English"
                  ],
                  "phoneticNotation": "IPA",
                  "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8\u026an\u02ccs\u025bk(t)"
                }
              ],
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                  "definitions": [
                    "a small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings"
                  ],
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                    {
                      "id": "zoology",
                      "text": "Zoology"
                    }
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                      "notes": [
                        {
                          "text": "as modifier",
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                        }
                      ],
                      "text": "insect pests"
                    }
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                    {
                      "text": "Insects are usually placed in the class Insecta (see also Hexapoda). The body of a typical adult insect is divided into head, thorax (bearing the legs and wings), and abdomen. The class includes many familiar forms, such as flies, bees, wasps, moths, beetles, grasshoppers, and cockroaches. Insects are the most numerous animals in both numbers of individuals and of different kinds, with more than a million species in all habitats except the sea, and they are of enormous economic importance as pests and carriers of disease, and also as pollinators",
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                      "id": "invertebrate",
                      "text": "Invertebrate"
                    }
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                    "small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings"
                  ],
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                    {
                      "definitions": [
                        "any small invertebrate animal, especially one with several pairs of legs."
                      ],
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                        {
                          "id": "invertebrate",
                          "text": "Invertebrate"
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                          "id": "invertebrate",
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                        "any small invertebrate animal"
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