ja|pyg|id

ja|pyg|id
ja|pyg|id «juh PIHJ uhd», noun.
any one of a group of long, wingless insects with a pair of appendages like forceps at the end of its body and no eyes, found in moss and at the edges of woods.
[< New Latin Japygidae the family name]

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