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FIREBRAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does firebrat mean?
• FIREBRAT (noun)
The noun FIREBRAT has 1 sense:
1. lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces
Familiarity information: FIREBRAT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
firebrat; Thermobia domestica
Hypernyms ("firebrat" is a kind of...):
bristletail (small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail)
Holonyms ("firebrat" is a member of...):
genus Thermobia; Thermobia (a genus of Lepismatidae)
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