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PROTURA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Minute wingless arthropods: telsontails

Synonyms:

order Protura; Protura

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Protura"):

proturan; telsontail (any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter)

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

class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta (insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species)

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