Collem'bela, the name given by Sir John Lubbock to a tribe of wingless insects, to which the Podura (q.v.) or spring-tail belongs; though he and other entomologists question their claim to be called insects.
Collem'bela
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 347
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