GEOPHILIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Geophilidae mean? 

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

1. small extremely elongate centipedes that live in earth

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEOPHILIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small extremely elongate centipedes that live in earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Geophilidae; Geophilidae

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Geophilidae"):

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

Holonyms ("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)