Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail.(noun)
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Use "podura" in a sentence
"Vade Mecum with mounted specimens of sheep's wool, and the hairs of other quadrupeds, a distorted proboscis of a fly, and podura scales, we read but little of mites and their habits."