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EARWIG

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("earwig" is a kind of...):

insect (small air-breathing arthropod)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "earwig"):

common European earwig; Forficula auricularia (sometimes destructive to cultivated bulbs)

Holonyms ("earwig" is a member of...):

Dermaptera; order Dermaptera (earwigs and a few related forms)

 II. (verb) 

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Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb earwig

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