Definition of Garden centipede

1. Noun. Minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops.

Exact synonyms: Garden Symphilid, Scutigerella Immaculata, Symphilid
Generic synonyms: Arthropod
Group relationships: Genus Scutigerella, Scutigerella

Lexicographical Neighbors of Garden Centipede

gardants
garden-burger
garden-burgers
garden-path sentence
garden-variety
garden angelica
garden apartment
garden apartments
garden balm
garden burger
garden burgers
garden cart
garden center
garden centers
garden centipede (current term)
garden centre
garden centres
garden chair
garden city
garden cress
garden current
garden dormouse
garden egg
garden forget-me-not
garden gnome
garden gnomes
garden heliotrope
garden hose
garden huckleberry

Literary usage of Garden centipede

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Two Happy Years in Ceylon by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1893)
"As in the case of our own garden centipede, the light is more attractive than the light-bearer. When captured, the light of the Ceylonese firefly proves to ..."

2. Pacific Northwest Agricultural Insect & Plant Disease Study Manual by Hugh W. Homan, Russell W. Clausen (1998)
"These include the garden centipede, a pest of roots of crops in organic soils. Chilopoda includes centipedes that have 15 or more pairs of legs with one ..."

3. Two Happy Years in Ceylon by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1893)
"As in the case of our own garden centipede, the light is more attractive than the light-bearer. When captured, the light of the Ceylonese firefly proves to ..."

4. Pacific Northwest Agricultural Insect & Plant Disease Study Manual by Hugh W. Homan, Russell W. Clausen (1998)
"These include the garden centipede, a pest of roots of crops in organic soils. Chilopoda includes centipedes that have 15 or more pairs of legs with one ..."

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