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Etymology
Noun
springtail (plural springtails)
- Any of various wingless hexapods, of the subclass Collembola, with spring-like legs. [from 18th c.]
- 2022 November 7, Oliver Whang, “Why Fly or Swim When You Can Jump? Ask the Springtail.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Among the wonders of the natural world that few people have ever noticed: a semiaquatic springtail in motion.
- 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 214:
- Springtails, or collembolans, are strictly not insects because of technicalities to do with the position of their mouthparts, but they are the closest cousins of insects.
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