jumping bristletail

1. 1.

   wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed

   Synonymsmachilid

   Broaderthysanuran insect

   Part ofMachilidae

Questions about jumping bristletail

What does jumping bristletail mean?

jumping bristletail means "wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed".

What is another word for jumping bristletail?

Close synonyms include machilid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jumping bristletail a common word?

jumping bristletail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.