Definition of thysanura Thysanura
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What does thysanura mean?
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| thysanura - firebrats; silverfish; machilids | ||
| order Thysanura | ||
| animal order the order of animals | ||
| class hexapoda, class insecta, hexapoda, insecta insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species | ||
| thysanuran insect, thysanuron primitive wingless insects: bristletail | ||
| family lepismatidae, lepismatidae firebrats | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- thysanura (n. pl.)
An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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thysanura
this-a-nū′ra, n. an order of wingless insects of small size, undergoing no metamorphosis, the abdomen usually bearing peculiar structures which seem to be abortive limbs, the spring-tails or bristle-tails.—adjs. Thysanū′rian; Thysanū′riform. [Gr. thysanos, a fringe, oura, a tail.]
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🔤- thysanura, noun, singular of thysanuras / thysanurae.
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