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    FAMILY GEOPHILIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small extremely elongate centipedes that live in earthplay

    Synonyms:

    family Geophilidae; Geophilidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("family Geophilidae" is a kind of...):

    arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

    Meronyms (members of "family Geophilidae"):

    genus Geophilus; Geophilus (type genus of the Geophilidae: a cosmopolitan genus of centipedes sometimes called earwigs)

    Holonyms ("family 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)

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