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GEOPHILIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small extremely elongate centipedes that live in earth
Synonyms:
family Geophilidae; Geophilidae
Classified under:
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)