stick insect

English

Alternative forms

stick-insect

Noun

stick insect (plural stick insects)

Any of various insects of the order Phasmida that mimic sticks or twigs.

Synonyms

stick-bug
walking stick

Translations

insects of the order Phasmida

Chinese:
Mandarin: 竹節蟲 (zh), 竹节虫 (zh) (zhújiéchóng)
Dutch: wandelende tak
Esperanto: fasmo
Finnish: sauvasirkka
French: phasme (fr) m
Galician: insecto pau m
German: Gespenstschrecke (de) f
Hungarian: botsáska (hu)
Japanese: ナナフシ (nanafushi)

Maori: rō, whē
Navajo: wónikǫsí
Polish: patyczak m
Portuguese: bicho-pau m
Romanian: fasmide f pl
Russian: па́лочник (ru) m (páločnik)
Spanish: fásmido m, insecto palo m
Swedish: vandrande pinne c
Vietnamese: bọ que

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