Word Meanings - SPRINGTAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of numerous species of small apterous insects belonging to the order Thysanura. They have two elastic caudal stylets which can be bent under the abdomen and then suddenly extended like a spring, thus enabling them to leap to a considerable distance. See Collembola, and Podura.

• Undercraft
  A sly trick or device; as, an undercraft of authors.
• Undersaturated
  Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.
• Underdressed
  Not dresses enough.
• Undershrieve
  A low shrub; a woody plant of low stature.
• Undergird
  To blind below; to gird round the bottom.
• Underspore
  To raise with a spar, or piece of wood, used as a lever.
• Springald
  Alt. of Springall
• Undergrowth
  That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees.
• Understratums
  of Understratum
• Sprinkled
  of Sprinkle
• Underkind
  An inferior kind.
• Undertide
  Alt. of Undertime
• Underlying
  Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.
• Underwood
  Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural.
• Elasticity
  The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; th
• Underact
  To perform inefficiently, as a play; to act feebly.
• Undernom
  of Undernime

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