insect vs ephemeron

ephemeron vs insect

insect and ephemeron both are nouns.

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

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

insect: small air-breathing arthropod
ephemeron: anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

Other hyponyms of insect include social insect, ephemeral, 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, earwig, lepidopteran, lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect, pupa, imago, queen.

insect (noun)	ephemeron (noun)
small air-breathing arthropod	anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

Difference between insect and ephemeron

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