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FAMILY MACHILIDAE

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Meaning:

Jumping bristletails

Synonyms:

family Machilidae; Machilidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("family Machilidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Machilidae"):

jumping bristletail; machilid (wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed)

Holonyms ("family Machilidae" is a member of...):

order Thysanura; Thysanura (firebrats; silverfish; machilids)

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