social insect

Other forms: social insects

Definitions of social insect
  1. noun
    an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species
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    type of:
    insect
    a small creature with six legs, three body fragments, two antennae, and usually wings belonging in the Arthropoda phylum
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