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HOUSE CENTIPEDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does house centipede mean?
• HOUSE CENTIPEDE (noun)
The noun HOUSE CENTIPEDE has 1 sense:
1. long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars
Familiarity information: HOUSE CENTIPEDE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
house centipede; Scutigera coleoptrata
Hypernyms ("house centipede" is a kind of...):
centipede (chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors)
Holonyms ("house centipede" is a member of...):
genus Scutigera; Scutigera (a genus of Scutigeridae)
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