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Definition of Order collembola
1. Noun. Minute wingless arthropods: springtails.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Collembolan, Springtail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Collembola
Literary usage of Order collembola
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1919)
"... BY JUSTUS W. FOLSOM University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois PLATES XVI TO
XXIII The insects of the order Collembola that were collected in Greenland by ..."
2. Entomology, with Special Reference to Its Ecological Aspects by Justus Watson Folsom (1922)
"The conversion of mandibulate into suctorial organs may be seen within the order
Collembola, though it is improbable that Hemiptera arose from forms like ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"SPRINGTAILS, a family of wingless insects of the order Collembola distinguished
by the possession of an elastic forked caudal appendage, folded under the ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1902)
"... of specimens submitted to them for comparison with Continental types, and for
other valuable assistance. SYSTEMATIC! LIST OF SPECIES. Order COLLEMBOLA. ..."
5. Catalogue of the Preparations of Comparative Anatomy in the Museum of Guy's by Philip Henry Pye-Smith, Guy's Hospital Museum (1874)
"... &c., make up the sub-order Collembola. Notice the radiating marks from the
apex of each scale. ..."
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