noun
minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops
• Syn: ↑garden symphilid, ↑symphilid, ↑Scutigerella immaculata
• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod
• Member Holonyms: ↑Scutigerella, ↑genus Scutigerella
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noun : a minute symphilid (Scutigerella immaculata) that often infests the underground parts of truck and greenhouse crops — called also garden symphilid
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garden centipede,
a small centipede that often injures seeds and young shoots of sugar beets, asparagus, and other crops.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.