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- noun Plural form of
bristletail .
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Examples
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Their most distinguishing feature is the tail arrangement; a three-pronged fork of antennae-like appendages; this earns them the name of "bristletails".
BC Bloggers 2009
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He and his coworkers dropped wingless bristletails, thought to be ancestors of winged insects, from treetops and watched them control their descent with their tails.
Latest Articles 2009
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Nor did he consider the possibility that bristletails are secondarily flightless.
Latest Articles 2009
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Army ants (Neivamyrmex spp.) and primitive bristletails, and land snails are among the ecoregion’s large number of relict and unusual invertebrate species.
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