Insectual

Quick meaning: Insectual is an adjective meaning Of, relating to, or characteristic of an insect.

Meaning

Of, relating to, or characteristic of an insect.

Example Sentences

Other times its horns proceed, slow yellow yearnings to live, they go eclipsed, delousing insectual nightmares dead to thunder, herald of genesis.

He watches a small bulldozer build uniform piles of dust and sand. There is something insectual about the machine’s efforts, a formician predetermination that Michael finds soothing.

Insects were now awake and playing between the pine branches and the leaf drift. Sarah wished she could live like them, stick herself to a mate, to dance, an ooze of pollen and insectual fluids, then to split apart, deseaming, done.

The remembrance of those horrible nights, which were for the most part sleepless, makes us even now shudder, varied only, as they were, by occasional volleys of curses from the men, upon all our persecutors, both human and insectual, if we may coin a word.

Synonyms for insectual

Depending on context, synonyms include insectile.

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