thysanuran insect

Thesaurus

Noun

1.thysanuran insect - primitive wingless insects: bristletailthysanuroninsect - small air-breathing arthropodorder Thysanura, Thysanura - firebrats; silverfish; machilidsbristletail - small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tailLepisma saccharina, silverfish - silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothingjumping bristletail, machilid - wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed