Usually means: Primitive, wingless insect with cerci.
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  1. bristletail: Merriam-Webster
  2. bristletail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bristletail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bristletail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bristletail: Vocabulary.com
  6. bristletail: Wordnik
  7. bristletail: Wiktionary
  8. bristletail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bristletail: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Bristletail, bristletail: Dictionary.com
  11. Bristletail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Bristletail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. bristletail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. bristletail: Rhymezone
  15. Bristletail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. bristletail: FreeDictionary.org
  17. bristletail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. bristletail: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bristletail)

noun:  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:
noun:  jumping bristletails in the insect order Archaeognatha
noun:  insects in the order Zygentoma such as silverfish and firebrats
noun:  two-pronged bristletails in the hexapod order Diplura

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