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Noun: machilid
  1. Wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed
    - jumping bristletail

Derived forms: machilids

Type of: thysanuran insect, thysanuron

Part of: family Machilidae, Machilidae