The AI-powered English dictionary
plural bristletail or bristletails
Any of various small, active six-legged arthropods that have two or three bristles at the ends of their abdomens and that do not have wings. These were formerly classified together in the insect subclass Apterygota or the order Thysanura but are no longer considered closely related:
jumping bristletails in the insect order Archaeognatha examples
insects in the order Zygentoma such as silverfish and firebrats examples
two-pronged bristletails in the hexapod order Diplura examples