Darren New schrieb:
> Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> I think that bug and bicho are more or less synonymous in their 
>> meaning, but biologically spiders are not insects (6 legs) but 
>> arthropods (8 legs).
> 
> I'm also pretty sure that technically, a "bug" means a germ, not an 
> insect. :-)

I'm pretty sure you're wrong - except as a secondary (or, rather, 
tertiary) meaning. (And I just checked, to find that 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug agrees with me.)

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