phasmid insect

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phasmid insect - large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects phasmid 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