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Insect Lived Quietly

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noun

• social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting

• a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination

25%6 Short-lived insect
noun

• slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days

25%11 The age at which the number of years lived is equal to the number of days lived
adjective satellite

• being seven more than ninety

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