PROTURA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Protura mean? 

• PROTURA (noun)
  The noun PROTURA has 1 sense:

1. minute wingless arthropods: telsontails

  Familiarity information: PROTURA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTURA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Minute wingless arthropods: telsontails

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Protura; Protura

Hypernyms ("Protura" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Protura"):

proturan; telsontail (any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter)

Holonyms ("Protura" is a member of...):

class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta (insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species)