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Definition of 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
Definition of Thysanura
1. n. pl. An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura.
Medical Definition of Thysanura
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Thysanura
Literary usage of Thysanura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"The styli or vestigial legs of certain thysanura.—In certain thysanura the coxa
of each middle and hind thoracic leg bears a small appendage, ..."
2. Entomology for Beginners for the Use of Young Folks, Fruit-growers, Farmers by Alpheus Spring Packard (1888)
"OKDER I. thysanura* (Spring-tails and Bristle-tails). The thysanura are very ...
Synopsis of the thysanura of Essex County, Mass. (5th Rep. Peab. Acad Sc.. ..."
3. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"Two subdivisions, the orders thysanura and Collembola, are generally ...
The thysanura have styli present, while in the Collembola they are absent. ..."
4. 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 ..."
5. Report and Transactions (1891)
"THE little animals included in the two groups Collembola and thysanura are so
remarkable in ... The young Collembola and thysanura, when they leave the egg, ..."
6. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1875)
"Synopsis of the thysanura of Essex County, Mass., with descriptions of a few
extralimital forms. Eep. Peab. Ac. v. pp. 23-51. A descriptive synopsis, mostly ..."
7. 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. ..."
8. 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 ..."
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