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THYSANURON

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Primitive wingless insects: bristletail

Synonyms:

thysanuran insect; thysanuron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

insect (small air-breathing arthropod)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thysanuron"):

bristletail (small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail)

Lepisma saccharina; silverfish (silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing)

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

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

order Thysanura; Thysanura (firebrats; silverfish; machilids)

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