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Definition of Order thysanura
1. Noun. Firebrats; silverfish; machilids.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Thysanuran Insect, Thysanuron, Family Lepismatidae, Lepismatidae, Family Machilidae, Machilidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Thysanura
Literary usage of Order thysanura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"... (order thysanura.) The insects of this order are usually of very small size,
and are wingless and have practically no metamorphoses. ..."
2. A Manual for the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"Order THYSANURA (Thys-a-nu'ra). Bristle-tails, Spring-tails, Fish-moths, and others.
The members of t/iis order are wingless ..."
3. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"Order THYSANURA The Thysanura are active little insects, which live generally in
obscure places and are mostly of too small a size to attract much attention ..."
4. The Zoological Miscellany: Being Descriptions of New Or Interesting Animals by William Elford Leach, Richard P. Nodder (1817)
"On the Families, Stirpes, and Genera of the order thysanura. THYSANURA.
SYNOPSIS FAMILIARUM, STIRPIUM, ET GENERUM. Fam. ..."
5. Catalogue of the Preparations of Comparative Anatomy in the Museum of Guy's by Philip Henry Pye-Smith, Guy's Hospital Museum (1874)
"order thysanura. • No true metamorphosis; biting jaws and suctorial ... This insect
belongs to the section or sub-order Thysanura proper, ..."
6. Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura by John Lubbock (1873)
"The order THYSANURA was established in 1796 by Latreille, who placed it between
Pulex and the PABA- SITA. In the 'Considerations Generates' (1810), ..."
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