Meaning of જંતુ in English

The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.
One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of tracheae, opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See Insect, n.
In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone. See Hexapoda.
In the most general sense, the Hexapoda, Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined.
The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution.
To inveigh.
A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.