bristletailn.
/ˈbrɪs(ə)lteɪl/ 1. A wingless insect ( Machilis maritima) having the abdomen terminated by bristly appendages which assist it in leaping.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Apterygota or Ametabola > [noun] > order Thysanura > machilis maritina (bristle tail)
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Bristle-tails, a sort of Flies, some of which have one Bristle, others two..in their Tail.
1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 97 I found several colonies of that curious insect the seaside bristletail.
2. A name of the ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida.
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1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl.
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