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earwig

DEFINITIONS OF: earwig

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n 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

Types:
Forficula auricularia, common European earwig
sometimes destructive to cultivated bulbs
Type of:
insect
small air-breathing arthropod
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