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spring-tail Zool.
Also springtail, spring tail.
[f. spring n.1 or v.1]
One or other of various species of insects which leap or spring by means of their tail.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XV. 169/1 Podura, or spring⁓tail,..a genus of insects of the order of aptera. 1854Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 96 The velvet spring-tail..leaps by jerking its tail downwards from under its body. 1879E. P. Wright Anim. Life 491 The springtails had, however, attracted the attention of naturalists long before that date. |