Insects
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early 17th century (originally denoting any small cold-blooded creature with a segmented body): from Latin (animal) insectum ‘segmented (animal)’ (translating Greek zōion entomon ), from insecare ‘cut up or into’, from in- ‘into’ + secare ‘to cut’.