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.

• Underbrush
  Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.
• Underpossessor
  One who possesses or holds anything subject to the superior of another.
• UNDERLOADSWITCH
  A switch which opens a circuit when the current falls below a certain predetermined value, used to protect certain types of motors from running at excessive speed upon decrease of load.
• Smallpox
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thi
• 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.

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