Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks;
they make erratic leaps when disturbed;
[syn: jumping bristletail, machilid]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
machilid \mach"i*lid\, n.
A wingless insect living in dark moist places, as under tree
trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed; called also
jumping bristletail.
Syn: jumping bristletail.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
jumping bristletail
n 1: wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead
tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed [syn:
jumping bristletail, machilid]