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Insect vs Bardie - What's the difference?

insect | bardie |

As nouns the difference between insect and bardie

is that insect is an arthropod in the class insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton while bardie is (scotland) a minor poet or bard; used as a self-deprecatory epithet by or bardie can be (australia) the edible larva of an insect.

As an adjective bardie is

rude and insolent; bolshie.

insect

English

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1=antenna 2=lower ocelli 3=upper ocelli 4=compound eye 5=brain 6=prothorax 7=dorsal artery 8=tracheal tubes 9=mesothorax 10=metathorax 11=first wing 12=second wing 13=midgut (stomach) 14=heart 15=ovary 16=hindgut 17=anus 18=vagina 19=nerve chord 20=Malpighian tubes 21=pillow 22=claws 23=tarsus 24=tibia 25=femur 26=trochanter 27=foregut 28=thoracic ganglion 29=coxa 30=salivary gland 31=subesophageal ganglion 32=mouthparts , detail3= }}

Noun

(en noun)
  • An arthropod in the class Insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
  • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
  • (colloquial) Any small arthropod similar to an insect including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc
  • A contemptible or powerless person.
  • Synonyms

    * bug (Colloquial 1,2)

    See also

    * arachnid * arthropod * beetle * bug * chafer * coleopter * entomology * larva * worm

    Anagrams

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    bardie

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A minor poet or bard; used as a self-deprecatory epithet by .
  • * 1998 , Carol McGuirk, Critical Essays on Robert Burns , page 168,
  • Burns signals her distance from the Classical Muses, and his position as more bardie than bard.

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Rude and insolent; bolshie.
  • Etymology 3

    From bardi .

    Alternative forms

    * bardee * bardy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia) The edible larva of an insect.
  • Anagrams

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