noun
small elongate centipedes living in soil and under stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs
• Syn: ↑order Geophilomorpha
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Chilopoda, ↑class Chilopoda
• Member Meronyms: ↑Geophilidae, ↑family Geophilidae
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: an order of small extremely elongate centipedes living in soil and under stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs
Useful english dictionary. 2012.