Definition of Order Collembola

1. Noun. Minute wingless arthropods: springtails.

Exact synonyms: Collembola
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Collembolan, Springtail

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Collembola

order Casuarinales
order Caudata
order Cestida
order Cetacea
order Charadriiformes
order Charales
order Chelonethida
order Chelonia
order Chiroptera
order Chlorococcales
order Chytridiales
order Ciconiiformes
order Cilioflagellata
order Coccidia
order Coleoptera
order Collembola (current term)
order Columbiformes
order Colymbiformes
order Commelinales
order Coniferales
order Conodonta
order Conodontophorida
order Coraciiformes
order Cordaitales
order Corrodentia
order Crocodilia
order Crocodylia
order Cuculiformes
order Cycadales
order Cycadofilicales

Literary usage of Order Collembola

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1919)
"... BY JUSTUS W. FOLSOM University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois PLATES XVI TO XXIII The insects of the order Collembola that were collected in Greenland by ..."

2. Entomology, with Special Reference to Its Ecological Aspects by Justus Watson Folsom (1922)
"The conversion of mandibulate into suctorial organs may be seen within the order Collembola, though it is improbable that Hemiptera arose from forms like ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"SPRINGTAILS, a family of wingless insects of the order Collembola distinguished by the possession of an elastic forked caudal appendage, folded under the ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1902)
"... of specimens submitted to them for comparison with Continental types, and for other valuable assistance. SYSTEMATIC! LIST OF SPECIES. Order COLLEMBOLA. ..."

5. Catalogue of the Preparations of Comparative Anatomy in the Museum of Guy's by Philip Henry Pye-Smith, Guy's Hospital Museum (1874)
"... &c., make up the sub-order Collembola. Notice the radiating marks from the apex of each scale. ..."

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