phasmid

phas·mid  (fzmd)

n.

Any of various insects of the order Phasmida, including the leaf insects and walking sticks, especially common in tropical areas and resembling foliage in color and form.

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[From New Latin Phasmida, order name, from Phasma, type genus, from Greek phasma, apparition, from phainein, to show; see phase.]

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phasmid [ˈfæzmɪd]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any plant-eating insect of the mainly tropical order Phasmida: includes the leaf insects and stick insects

adj

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the order Phasmida

[from New Latin Phasmida, from Greek phasma spectre]

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Noun

1.

phasmid - large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects phasmid insect insect - small air-breathing arthropod order Phasmatodea, order Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmida - in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects stick insect, walkingstick, walking stick - any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies leaf insect, walking leaf - tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body; common in southern Asia and the East Indies