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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Zool.)

An insect of the genera

Lepisma

Campodea

, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.

bristletail ‎(plural bristletail or bristletails)

Any of various small active insects of the order Thysanura, that have two or three bristles at the end of their abdomen and that do not have wings.

insect of the order Thysanura

Navajo: łeʼesoołii
Portuguese: traça (pt) f, traça-de-livros f (Brazil), lepisma m
Russian: щетнихво́стка f ‎(ščetnixvóstka), чешу́йница f ‎(češújnica), са́харная чешу́йница f ‎(sáxarnaja češújnica)
Spanish: pececillo de plata m, lepisma de la harina (es) f, lepisma del azúcar f