firebrat
English
Etymology
fire
+
brat
, after their habit of collecting near furnaces.
Noun
firebrat
(
plural
firebrats
)
A
thysanuran
insect,
Thermobia domestica
.
Further reading
Fire Brat
in the
Encyclopædia Britannica
(11th edition, 1911)
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