stick insect

English

Alternative forms

• stick-insect

A stick insect from Birbhum

Etymology

Compound of stick +‎ insect.

Noun

stick insect (plural stick insects)

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

   Synonyms: stick bug, walking stick

Derived terms

• Lord Howe Island stick insect

 

Translations

insects of the order Phasmida

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bengali: কাঠিপোকা (bn) (kaṭhipōka)
• Catalan: insecte bastó
• Cherokee: ᏍᎩᎾ ᎤᎩᎸᏗ (sgina ugilvdi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 竹節蟲 / 竹节虫 (zh) (zhújiéchóng)

• Dutch: wandelende tak
• Esperanto: fasmo
• Finnish: sauvasirkka
• French: phasme (fr) m
• Galician: insecto pau m
• German: Gespenstschrecke (de) f
• Greek: φασματώδη f (fasmatódi)
• Hungarian: botsáska (hu)
• Irish: cipíneach m
• Italian: fasmide m
• Japanese: ナナフシ (ja) (nanafushi)
• Korean: 대벌레 (daebeolle)
• Maori: rō, whē
• Navajo: wónikǫsí
• Odia: କାଠିପୋକ (or) (kāṭhipoka)
• Polish: patyczak (pl) m
• Portuguese: bicho-pau (pt) m, inseto-pau m
• Romanian: fasmide f pl
• Russian: па́лочник (ru) m (páločnik)
• Spanish: fásmido m, insecto palo m
• Swedish: vandrande pinne c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: bọ que (vi)
• Welsh: pryf brigyn m

Further reading

• stick insect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia