Manava Dharmashastra 1.40

1.40

kṛmayo'tyantasūkṣmā prāṇinaḥ | kīṭāstebhya īṣatsthulā bhūmicarāḥ | pataṅgāḥ śalabhādayaḥ | sthāvaraṃ vṛkṣaparvatādi | pṛthagvidhaṃ nānāprakāram | 'kṣudrajantava' ityekavadbhāvaḥ |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘Worms’— extremely small living tilings.—‘Beetles’—are slightly larger than worms and crawl on the ground. —‘Moths,’ locusts.—‘Immovable things’—trees, mountains, etc.;—‘of several kinds,’ of different varieties.

The copulative compounds in the singular are in accordance with Pāṇini’s Sutra 2.1.8, by which copulative compounds formed of the names of small living beings take the singular ending.—(10)