entotrophi

entotrophi
\\|entə+\ noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from ent- + trophi
: an order of primitively wingless, eyeless, unpigmented insects that are related to the Symphyla and Thysanura, that have the mouthparts largely concealed within the head and the abdomen ending in a pair of filamentous or forceps-shaped cerci, and that live in the soil

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