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Definition of Garden centipede
1. Noun. Minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod
Group relationships: Genus Scutigerella, Scutigerella
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garden Centipede
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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