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- Two-winged insects characterized by active flight (plural)
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- Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (plural)
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- Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral (plural)
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- Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil (plural)
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- Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying (plural)
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- Chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with
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- Black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine (plural)
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- Small air-breathing arthropod (plural)
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- Eight-legged creature that spins webs (plural)
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- Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest (plural)
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- Small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests
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- Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end (plural)
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- Air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs (plural)
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- Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
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- Echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk
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- Typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae
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