THYSANURON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thysanuron mean? 

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

1. primitive wingless insects: bristletail

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THYSANURON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive wingless insects: bristletail

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

thysanuran insect; thysanuron

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

insect (small air-breathing arthropod)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thysanuron"):

bristletail (small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail)

Lepisma saccharina; silverfish (silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing)

jumping bristletail; machilid (wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed)

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

order Thysanura; Thysanura (firebrats; silverfish; machilids)