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bristletail
[bris-uhl-teyl]
noun
any of various wingless insects of the order Thysanura, having long, bristlelike, caudal appendages, comprising the firebrats, silverfish, and machilids.
bristletail
/ ˈɪəˌٱɪ /
noun
any primitive wingless insect of the orders Thysanura and Diplura , such as the silverfish and firebrat, having a flattened body and long tail appendages
Word History and Origins
Origin of bristletail1
Example Sentences
Bristletail antennae, however, did respond to odors, albeit mildly relative to fruit flies.
Bristletail antennae did accommodate a high density of ionotropic receptors.
The researchers scanned the bristletail genome and found no traces of ORs or Orco.
Sil′ver-fir, a coniferous tree of the genus Abies, whose leaves show two silvery lines on the under side; Sil′ver-fish, a name given to the atherine, to artificially bred gold-fish, the sand-smelt, the tarpon: any species of Lepisma, a thysanurous insect—also Bristletail, Walking-fish, Silver-moth, Shiner, &c.;
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