HOUSE CENTIPEDE

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars

Synonyms:

house centipede; Scutigera coleoptrata

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Nouns denoting animals

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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