poduridn.adj.
/pəʊˈd(j)ʊərɪd/, /pəʊˈdʒʊərɪd/, U.S. /poʊˈd(j)ʊrəd/ Zoology.
A. n.
A springtail of the family Poduridae.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Apterygota or Ametabola > [noun] > order Collembola > genus Podura > member of (spring-tail)
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1871 Amer. Naturalist 5 753 The new forms he found were a beetle..a Podurid, Anurophorus Stillicidii;..and a false-spider.
1883 A. Leslie tr. A. E. Nordenskiöld Voy. Vega (new ed.) 60 Arachnids, acarids, and podurids occur most plentifully.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiii. 315 ‘Glacier-fleas’, which sometimes occur in millions on the thawing snow, probably shifting from their winter hiding-places to water, are said to be usually Podurids.
1985 Entomologica Scandinavica Suppl. No. 21 122/1 A substantial part of the Alaskan podurids belong to the genus Hypogastrura.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the family Poduridae.
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1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Poduridæ Podurid, a. & n.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiii. 246 Another extreme habit is that of the so-called ‘snow-fleas’, wingless spring-tails of the Podurid family, which are sometimes seen in countless numbers moving across a snowfield or a glacier.
1972 Ecol. Monogr. 42 476 Podurid collembolans were not attacked because of production of slimy or otherwise distasteful secretions.
2001 Biol. Invasions 3 51 Phragmites stands supported more podurid insects..than did the un-invaded stands.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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