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bristle-tail

bristle-tail is the alternative form of bristletail.

Meaning of bristletail

Noun

bristletail (plural bristletail or bristletails)

  1. jumping bristletails in the insect order Archaeognatha
  2. insects in the order Zygentoma such as silverfish and firebrats
  3. two-pronged bristletails in the hexapod order Diplura

Forms of bristle-tail

pluralbristle-tails

Questions about bristle-tail

What is bristle-tail the alternative form of?
Bristle-tail is the alternative form of bristletail.

Words near bristle-tail in the dictionary

  1. bristle snail
  2. bristle snails
  3. bristle up
  4. bristle worm
  5. bristle worms
  6. bristle-tail
  7. bristle-tails
  8. bristlebill
  9. bristlebills
  10. bristlebird
  11. bristlebirds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bristle-tail (page history and authors); bristletail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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