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machilid
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun machilid has 1 sense
- machilid(n = noun.animal) jumping bristletail - wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed; Array is a kind of thysanuran insect, thysanuron
is a member of family machilidae, machilidae
CIDE DICTIONARY
machilid, n.
A wingless insect living in dark moist places, as under tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed; called also jumping bristletail . [WordNet 1.5]
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