jumping bristletail

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noun

any of several thysanuran insects that live in dark, warm, moist places, as under leaves, bark, and dead tree trunks and along rocky seacoasts, and are active jumpers, making erratic leaps when disturbed.

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Also called machilid.

Words nearby jumping bristletail

jumper ant, jump flap, jump head, jump in, jumping bean, jumping bristletail, jumping gene, jumping genes, jumping hare, jumping jack, jumping mouse

How to use jumping bristletail in a sentence

But also in The Two Towers, we had the scene where he was jumping on a horse.
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But his voice never seems to crack or weaken, and he's always in motion—jiggling, aerobic walking, jumping, dancing.
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The problem is that those restrictions—like jumping from a 24- to a 72-hour waiting period—seem fairly arbitrary.
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I personally plead guilty to jumping on that bandwagon without thinking fully about what I was doing.
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As alarming as parents might find those results, Dr. Temple cautions against jumping to any drastic conclusions.
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Every few days after that the boy took Squinty out of his pen, and let him do the rope-jumping and the acorn-hunting tricks.
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One of Yung Pak's favourite toys was a wooden jumping-jack with a pasteboard tongue.
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Jumping up, he presented at the giraffe, which was galloping off about two hundred yards ahead.
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This is better than frightening them out of their skins by jumping out from behind a door and saying "Boo."
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"Jack certainly deserves great credit for jumping in after you," said Pepper, warmly.
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