stick insect

English

Alternative forms

• 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

Translations

insects of the order Phasmida

• Chinese:

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

• Dutch: wandelende tak
• Esperanto: fasmo
• Finnish: sauvasirkka
• French: phasme (fr) m
• Galician: insecto pau m
• German: Gespenstschrecke (de) f
• Hungarian: botsáska (hu)
• Japanese: ナナフシ (nanafushi)
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• Maori: rō, whē
• Navajo: wónikǫsí
• Polish: patyczak m
• Portuguese: bicho-pau (pt) m
• Romanian: fasmide f pl
• Russian: па́лочник (ru) m (páločnik)
• Spanish: fásmido m, insecto palo m
• Swedish: vandrande pinne c
• Vietnamese: bọ que