noun
wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed
• Syn: ↑jumping bristletail
• Hypernyms: ↑thysanuran insect, ↑thysanuron
• Member Holonyms: ↑Machilidae, ↑family Machilidae
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/mak"euh lid, meuh kuy"-/, n.
See jumping bristletail.
[ < NL Machilidae family name, equiv. to Machilid-, s. of Machilis a genus + -idae -ID2]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.