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stick insect

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stick insect: see walking stick walking stick or stick insect, names applied to extremely longbodied, slow-moving, herbivorous insects , forming a single family in the order Phasmatodea.
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I don't think [actresses] are supposed to look like stick insects.
She fields questions from a stick insect whose lover is obsessed with her, a fig wasp that laments that all the males she knows bite their girlfriends in half, and a lion bemoaning the fact that his mate is a nymphomaniac.
6-inch) long wingless bug, a cross between a mantis and stick insect, lives atop mountains in Namibia, Africa.
 
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