insect vs earwig

earwig vs insect

insect and earwig both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
insect	Yes	No	No	No
earwig	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, earwig is a hyponym of insect; that is, earwig is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than insect:

insect: small air-breathing arthropod
earwig: 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

Other hyponyms of insect include social insect, ephemeral, ephemeron, holometabola, metabola, defoliator, pollinator, gallfly, mecopteran, collembolan, springtail, proturan, telsontail, beetle, web spinner, louse, sucking louse, bird louse, biting louse, louse, flea, dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects, leaf-miner, leaf miner, hymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect, worker, termite, white ant, orthopteran, orthopteron, orthopterous insect, phasmid, phasmid insect, dictyopterous insect, bug, bug, hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect, heteropterous insect, homopteran, homopterous insect, psocopterous insect, ephemerid, ephemeropteran, plecopteran, stone fly, stonefly, neuropteran, neuropteron, neuropterous insect, odonate, trichopteran, trichopteron, trichopterous insect, thysanuran insect, thysanuron, thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect, lepidopteran, lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect, pupa, imago, queen.

insect (noun)	earwig (noun)
small air-breathing arthropod	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
a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

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