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From Longman Dictionary

stick ˌinsect noun [countable]

a long thin insect that looks like a small stick

Example

young models who look like stick insects (=are very thin)

He was built like a basketball player; tall and as thin as a stick insect

When I was young I was like a stick insect, then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight

The initial resemblance of the ancestral stick insect to a stick must have been very remote

One of them, anyway – the stick insect couldn’t have escaped