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PROTURAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does proturan mean?
• PROTURAN (noun)
The noun PROTURAN has 1 sense:
1. any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter
Familiarity information: PROTURAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
proturan; telsontail
Hypernyms ("proturan" is a kind of...):
insect (small air-breathing arthropod)
Holonyms ("proturan" is a member of...):
order Protura; Protura (minute wingless arthropods: telsontails)
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