Question

What type of word is insect?

Answer 1

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Insects, are a class in the phylum Arthropoda. They are small terrestrial invertebrates which have a hard exoskeleton. Insects are the largest group of animals on earth by far: about 926,400 different species have been described. They are more than half of all known living species.

Answer 2

Answer:

Insects or Insecta are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Definitions and circumscriptions vary; usually, insects comprise a class within the Arthropoda. As used here, the term Insecta is synonymous with Ectognatha

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