insectual

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an insect.
    — Cochineal is made from an insect. Every pound weight of this valuable drug is said to contain 70,000 insects boiled to death; so that the annual sacrifice of insectual life to procure our scarlet and crimson dyes amounts to about 49,000,000 of these minute members of the vast creation.

词形变化

more insectual comparative most insectual superlative

词源

From insect + -ual.
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