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INSECT BITE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

Synonyms:

bite; insect bite; sting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("insect bite" is a kind of...):

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

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

bee sting (a sting inflicted by a bee)

flea bite (sting inflicted by a flea)

mosquito bite (a sting inflicted by a mosquito)

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