From Longman Dictionary ˈtʃɪɡə(r) a small flea that lives in tropical regions and lays eggs under a person’s or an animal’s skin, causing painful areas on the skin
From Longman Dictionary mos‧qui‧to /məˈskiːtəʊ $ -toʊ/ ●○○ noun (plural mosquitoes or mosquitos) [countable] a small flying insect that sucks the blood of people and animals, sometimes spreading the disease malaria Example It opens up with the sound of a mosquito and gets louder and louder Even as I listened to him, mosquitoes, fat as houseflies, feasted on my legs We also found…
From Longman Dictionary drag‧on‧fly /ˈdræɡənflaɪ/ noun (plural dragonflies) [countable] a brightly-coloured insect with a long thin body and transparent wings which lives near water Example Being for once in the mood to get things right, Phoebe had brought home from the library a book about dragonflies The earliest so…
From Longman Dictionary crab /kræb/ ●●○ noun [countable] a sea animal with a hard shell, five legs on each side, and two large claws [قابل شمارش] یک حیوان دریایی با یک پوسته سخت، پنج پا در هر طرف و دو…
From Longman Dictionary boll ˈweevil noun [countable] an insect that eats and destroys cotton plants Example The boll weevil infests cotton fields and millionaires go bankrupt
From Longman Dictionary lob‧ster /ˈlɒbstə $ ˈlɑːbstər/ ●●○ noun [countable] a sea animal with eight legs, a shell, and two large claws [uncountable] the flesh of a lobster, which is eaten Example Personally, I would need a lobster or two He insisted the fisheries officers were doing their duty by removing illegal lobster traps…
From Longman Dictionary cray‧fish /ˈkreɪˌfɪʃ/ noun (plural crayfish) [countable, uncountable] a small animal like a lobster that lives in rivers and streams, or the meat from this animal Example The invertebrates include quite large creatures, such as freshwater shrimps and crayfish I then went off for lunch which was soup and crayfish Many invertebrates,…
From Longman Dictionary ˈɑːθrəpɒd an invertebrate animal such as an insect, spider or crab, that has its skeleton on the outside of its body and has joints on its legs
From Longman Dictionary cock‧le /ˈkɒkəl $ ˈkɑː-/ noun [countable] a common European shellfish that is used for food Example The 40-strong group started loading bags of cockles, which can fetch up to £12 a time, on to a lorry Yesterday, as the group of cockle pickers went about their…
From Longman Dictionary bi‧valve /ˈbaɪvælv/ noun [countable] technical any sea animal that has two shells joined together Example The same piece of rock also includes internal moulds of gastropods and bivalves Scallops, like oysters, are derived from bivalves The giant bivalves jammed the cracks between the black tufts of lava that covered the ocean floor What is true of bivalves is without much doubt true…
