"bristletail" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bristletail [plural], bristletails [plural]
Etymology: bristle + tail Etymology templates: {{compound|en|bristle|tail}} bristle + tail Head templates: {{en-noun|bristletail|s}} bristletail (plural bristletail or bristletails)
  1. Any of various small, active six-legged arthropods that have two or three bristles at the ends of their abdomens and that do not have wings. These were formerly classified together in the insect subclass Apterygota or the order Thysanura but are no longer considered closely related:
    jumping bristletails in the insect order Archaeognatha
    Categories (lifeform): Insects
    Sense id: en-bristletail-en-noun-4tSUJs3L Disambiguation of Insects: 33 34 33 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 33 33 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 35 31 34
  2. Any of various small, active six-legged arthropods that have two or three bristles at the ends of their abdomens and that do not have wings. These were formerly classified together in the insect subclass Apterygota or the order Thysanura but are no longer considered closely related:
    insects in the order Zygentoma such as silverfish and firebrats
    Categories (lifeform): Insects Translations (insect of the order Zygentoma): 衣魚 (Chinese Mandarin), 衣鱼 (yīyú) (Chinese Mandarin), sokeritoukka (Finnish), lépisme [masculine] (French), poisson d’argent [masculine] (French), Silberfischchen [neuter] (German), sertefarkú (Hungarian), acciughina [feminine] (Italian), łeʼesoołii (Navajo), traça [feminine] (Portuguese), traça-de-livros [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), lepisma [masculine] (Portuguese), щетнихво́стка (ščetnixvóstka) [feminine] (Russian), чешу́йница (češújnica) [feminine] (Russian), са́харная чешу́йница (sáxarnaja češújnica) [feminine] (Russian), pececillo de plata [masculine] (Spanish), lepisma de la harina [feminine] (Spanish), lepisma del azúcar [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-bristletail-en-noun-xKe3cQ~h Disambiguation of Insects: 33 34 33 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 33 33 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 35 31 34 Disambiguation of 'insect of the order Zygentoma': 18 67 15
  3. Any of various small, active six-legged arthropods that have two or three bristles at the ends of their abdomens and that do not have wings. These were formerly classified together in the insect subclass Apterygota or the order Thysanura but are no longer considered closely related:
    two-pronged bristletails in the hexapod order Diplura
    Categories (lifeform): Insects
    Sense id: en-bristletail-en-noun-Aeis-ffU Disambiguation of Insects: 33 34 33 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 33 33 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 35 31 34
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bristle-tail Related terms: silverfish

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.