proturans

pro·tu·ran

[pruh-toor-uhn, -tyoor-]
noun
1.
a proturan insect; telsontail.
adjective
2.
belonging or pertaining to the order Protura, compromising the telsontails.

Origin:
< Neo-Latin Protur(a) name of the order (see prot-, uro-2, -a1) + -an

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proturan

noun
any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter 
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Proturans is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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