Nine cats and an insect, for instance? (8)
I believe the answer is:
anagrams
'nine' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
I can't explain the rest of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for anagrams that I've seen before include "Words formed from letters of other words" , "Words turned into other words" , ""Sword" from "words" and "seraph" from "phrase", for example" , "Word jumbles" , "Words made by rearranging the letters of others" .)