phasmid

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Any of numerous chiefly tropical, often wingless insects of the order Phasmida (or Phasmatodea), having elongated bodies that resembles twigs or leaves, and including the walking sticks and the leaf insects.

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A member of the orthopterous family Phasmidæ.

Having the characters of or belonging to the family Phasmidæ.

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Any orthopterous insect of the family Phasmidæ, as a leaf insect or a stick insect.

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Any insect of the order Phasmida; the leaf insects and walking sticks

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Either of the two caudal chemoreceptors in some nematodes

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