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PROTURA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Minute wingless arthropods: telsontails
Synonyms:
order Protura; Protura
Classified under:
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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