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FAMILY GEOPHILIDAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does family Geophilidae mean?

• FAMILY GEOPHILIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY GEOPHILIDAE has 1 sense:

1. small extremely elongate centipedes that live in earth

Familiarity information: FAMILY GEOPHILIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FAMILY GEOPHILIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

family Geophilidae ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Small extremely elongate centipedes that live in earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Geophilidae; Geophilidae

Hypernyms ("family Geophilidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Geophilidae"):

genus Geophilus; Geophilus (type genus of the Geophilidae: a cosmopolitan genus of centipedes sometimes called earwigs)

Holonyms ("family Geophilidae" is a member of...):

Geophilomorpha; order Geophilomorpha (small elongate centipedes living in soil and under stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs)

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