GEOPHILOMORPHA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Geophilomorpha mean? 

• GEOPHILOMORPHA (noun)
  The noun GEOPHILOMORPHA has 1 sense:

1. small elongate centipedes living in soil and under stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs

  Familiarity information: GEOPHILOMORPHA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEOPHILOMORPHA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small elongate centipedes living in soil and under stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Geophilomorpha; order Geophilomorpha

Hypernyms ("Geophilomorpha" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Geophilomorpha"):

family Geophilidae; Geophilidae (small extremely elongate centipedes that live in earth)

Holonyms ("Geophilomorpha" is a member of...):

Chilopoda; class Chilopoda (arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs: centipedes)