Insecta is a 7 letter English word.
You can make 304 anagrams from letters in Insecta (aceinst).
1570-80; New Latin, Latin, plural of insectum insect
This want of coincidence is strikingly shown in a group of animals widely remote from the Insecta, viz.
On the other hand, we certainly cannot regard the Collembola as a group equivalent in value to the Insecta.
It was thus reduced by Lamarck in area, and made to comprise only the six-legged, wing-bearing “Insecta.”
A second group is the Insecta, of which we know something already.
But facts like those are, after all, nothing more than such as we may trace the counterpart of in higher animals than the Insecta.
It treats of curious animals which the author considers as more nearly allied to the Insecta than to the Crustacea or Arachnid.
It is estimated that four-fifths of the species comprised within the animal kingdom belong to the class of the Insecta.
Why it is, in the Insecta, that islands should predispose to an apterous state more than continents, it is not easy to speculate.
I shall next copy for you Latreille's latest definition of Insecta and Arachnida.
The Crustacea agree with Insecta in having a body divided into segments, furnished with jointed legs, compound eyes, and antenn.
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