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The single greatest characteristic is that all adult insects possess six pairs of legs.

There are other characteristics which most, but not all, insects share, i.e. wings, a body divided into head, thorax, and abdomen, and metamorphosis, but these characteristics may be absent in some primitive groups of insect.

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