springtail's Usage Examples:

A species of bristle-tail (Machilis maritima) and quite a number of springtails haunt the sea-coast at or below high-water mark.

Latreille to the primitive wingless insects known as springtails and bristletails.

Changes in the composition of soil-dwelling Collembola (springtail) communities in response to elevated carbon dioxide.

This order includes the bristle-tails and the springtails.

In many genera of springtails a curious post-antennal organ, consisting of sensory structures (often complex in form) surrounded by a firm ring, is to be noticed on the cuticle of the head between the eyes and the feelers.

The springtails have even a wider distribution.

- The Aptera are divided into two divergent sub-orders, theThysanura or bristle-tails, and the Collembola or springtails.

Most springtails are without air-tubes, and breathe through the general cuticle of the body.

Lubbock (Lord Avebury) separated the springtails as a distinct order, the Collembola, and by many students this separation has been maintained.