stick insect

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

Related topics: Insects

ˈstick ˌinsect noun [countable] British English  HBIa long thin insect that looks like a small stick 竹节虫 young models who look like stick insects (=are very thin) 瘦得跟竹节虫似的年轻模特

Examples from the Corpus

stick insect• He was built like a basketball player; tall and as thin as a stick insect.• When I was young I was like a stick insect, then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight.• The initial resemblance of the ancestral stick insect to a stick must have been very remote.• One of them, anyway - the stick insect couldn't have escaped.

ˈstick ˌinsect nounChineseSyllable  

long insect a small Corpus stick looks that a like thin

stick insect
ˈstick ˌinsect noun [countable] British English
a long thin insect that looks like a small stick:
    young models who look like stick insects (=are very thin)

stick insectBrE /ˈstɪk ɪnsekt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈstɪk ɪnsekt/ 🔊 nouna large insect with a long thin body that looks like a stick 竹节虫