springtail
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
springtail (plural springtails)
- Any of various wingless hexapods, of the subclass Collembola, with spring-like legs. [from 18th c.]
- 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 214:
- Springtails, or collembolans, are strictly not insects because of technicalities to do with the position of their mouthparts, but they are the closest cousins of insects.
Translations[edit]
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