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Any of various small, active six-legged arthropods that have two or three bristles at the ends of their abdomens and that do not have wings. These were formerly classified together in the insect subclass Apterygota or the order Thysanura but are no longer considered closely related:
jumping bristletails in the insect order Archaeognatha
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Any of various small, active six-legged arthropods that have two or three bristles at the ends of their abdomens and that do not have wings. These were formerly classified together in the insect subclass Apterygota or the order Thysanura but are no longer considered closely related:
insects in the order Zygentoma such as silverfish and firebrats
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Any of various small, active six-legged arthropods that have two or three bristles at the ends of their abdomens and that do not have wings. These were formerly classified together in the insect subclass Apterygota or the order Thysanura but are no longer considered closely related:
two-pronged bristletails in the hexapod order Diplura
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small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: thysanuran insect, thysanuron
Narrower terms: firebrat, Thermobia domestica
Calque of translingual Thysanura, as Ancient Greek θύσανος (thúsanos, “bristle”) + Ancient Greek οὐρᾱ́ (ourā́, “tail”). By surface analysis, bristle + tail.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
衣魚 /衣鱼
(yīyú)
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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Finnish:
sokeritoukka
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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French:
lépisme
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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French:
poisson d'argent
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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German:
Silberfischchen
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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Hungarian:
sertefarkú
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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Italian:
acciughina
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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Navajo:
łeʼesoołii
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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Portuguese:
traça
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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Portuguese:
traça-de-livros
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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Portuguese:
lepisma
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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Russian:
щетнихво́стка
(ščetnixvóstka)
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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Russian:
чешу́йница
(češújnica)
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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Russian:
са́харная чешу́йница
(sáxarnaja češújnica)
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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Spanish:
pececillo de plata
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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Spanish:
lepisma de la harina
— insect of the order Zygentoma
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Spanish:
lepisma del azúcar
— insect of the order Zygentoma
