bristletail

English

Alternative forms

• bristle-tail

Etymology

From bristle +‎ tail.

Noun

bristletail (plural bristletail or bristletails)

1. 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:
   1. jumping bristletails in the insect order Archaeognatha [from 18th c.]
   2. insects in the order Zygentoma such as silverfish and firebrats
   3. two-pronged bristletails in the hexapod order Diplura

Translations

insect of the order Zygentoma

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衣魚／衣鱼 (zh) (yīyú)

• Finnish: sokeritoukka
• French: lépisme (fr) m, poisson d’argent (fr) m
• German: Silberfischchen (de) n
• Hungarian: sertefarkú
• Italian: acciughina (it) f
• Navajo: łeʼesoołii
• Portuguese: traça (pt) f, traça-de-livros f (Brazil), lepisma m
• Russian: щетнихво́стка f (ščetnixvóstka), чешу́йница (ru) f (češújnica), са́харная чешу́йница f (sáxarnaja češújnica)
• Spanish: pececillo de plata (es) m, lepisma de la harina (es) f, lepisma del azúcar (es) f

See also

• silverfish