GC: n

S: PSG – http://phasmidstudygroup.org/phasmids (last access: 18 February 2024); AM – https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/leaf-and-stick-insects-order-phasmatodea/ (last access: 18 February 2024).

N: 1. New Latin Phasmida, group name, from Phasma, type genus, from Greek, apparition, from phainein to show. The first known use of phasmid was in 1864.

2. Any of an order (Phasmatodea synonym Phasmida) of large cylindrical or sometimes flattened chiefly tropical insects (such as a walking stick) that have long legs, strictly phytophagous habits, and incomplete metamorphosis and that include forms resembling leaves or twigs.

3. Entomology. An insect of the order Phasmida, which comprises the leaf insects and stick insects, or of the family Phasmidae, comprising the stick…

4. stick insect. Any of various insects of Phasmatidae and related families that are usually wingless with a long round body sticklike in form and color and long legs often held rigidly in positions resembling twigs of the trees on which they live.

5. stick insect. Any of several insects of the family Phasmidae, having a long, slender, twiglike body.

6. In the field of Genetics: phasmid.
. A type of vector composed of linearized plasmid, or repeats of it, flanked at each end by segments of phage lambda containing all the genes required for lytic function.
. French equivalent: phasmide.

. Medicine: phasmid. Either of the paired lateral postanal organs characteristic of most parasitic nematodes and usually regarded as chemoreceptors

7. Cultural Interrelation: We can mention the movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World directed by Peter Weir in 2003.

S: 1&2. MW – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phasmid (last access: 18 February 2024). 3. OD – https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=phasmid (last access: 18 February 2024); EncBrit – https://www.britannica.com/animal/phasmid (last access: 18 February 2024). 4. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=PHASME&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 18 February 2024). 5. GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/8386872/insecte-brindille (last access: 18 February 2024). 6. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=PHASMID&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 18 February 2024); MW – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phasmid (last access: 18 February 2024). 7. IMDB – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311113/quotes/ (last access: 18 February 2024).

SYN: 1. stick insect. 2. walking stick, walkingstick, walking-stick. (depending on field and context)

S: 1.  TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=PHASME&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 18 February 2024); GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/8386872/insecte-brindille (last access: 18 February 2024); GEO – https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/facts/stick-insects (last access: 18 February 2024); LCR – https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/discover-our-research/biodiversity-biosecurity/plants-invertebrates-fungi-and-bacteria/invertebrate-systematics/stick-insects/ (last access: 18 February 2024). 2. GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/8386872/insecte-brindille (last access: 18 February 2024).

CR: arthropod