GARDEN CENTIPEDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does garden centipede mean? 

• GARDEN CENTIPEDE (noun)
  The noun GARDEN CENTIPEDE has 1 sense:

1. minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops

  Familiarity information: GARDEN CENTIPEDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARDEN CENTIPEDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

garden centipede; garden symphilid; Scutigerella immaculata; symphilid

Hypernyms ("garden centipede" is a kind of...):

arthropod (invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin)

Holonyms ("garden centipede" is a member of...):

genus Scutigerella; Scutigerella (garden centipedes)