MACHILID

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed

Synonyms:

jumping bristletail; machilid

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("machilid" is a kind of...):

thysanuran insect; thysanuron (primitive wingless insects: bristletail)

Holonyms ("machilid" is a member of...):

family Machilidae; Machilidae (jumping bristletails)

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