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What (who) is -pronged - definition

ORDER OF HEXAPODS
Dipluran; Two-pronged bristletail; Two pronged bristletail; Procampodeidae; Heterojapygidae; Evalljapygidae; Diplurans; Two-pronged bristletails
  • A dipluran of the family Campodeidae
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-pronged      
A two-pronged or three-pronged attack, plan, or approach has two or three parts.
...a two-pronged attack on the recession...
COMB in ADJ: ADJ n
Four Comprehensives         
4 OF XI JINPING'S POLICY GOALS
Four-pronged Comprehensive Strategy
The Four Comprehensives, or the Four-pronged Comprehensive Strategy () is a list of political goals for China, put forward by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2014. They are:
prong         
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Prongs; Prong (disambiguation)
¦ noun
1. each of two or more projecting pointed parts on a fork or other device.
2. each of the separate parts of an attack or operation.
¦ verb pierce or stab with a fork.
Derivatives
pronged adjective
Origin
C15: perh. related to Mid. Low Ger. prange 'pinching instrument'.

Wikipedia

Diplura

The order Diplura ("two-pronged bristletails") is one of three orders of non-insect hexapods within the class Entognatha (alongside Collembola (springtails) and Protura). The name "diplura", or "two tails", refers to the characteristic pair of caudal appendages or filaments at the terminal end of the body.

Around 800 species of diplurans have been described, of which around 170 occur in North America and 12 in Great Britain.

Examples of use of -pronged
1. Abramoff‘s team devised a multi–pronged strategy.
2. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has a twin–pronged approach.
3. They are now carrying out a three–pronged attack.
4. On Afghanistan there has to be ‘a multi–pronged strategy.
5. He suggested a two–pronged strategy for the province.