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Definition of House centipede

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of House Centipede

Literary usage of House centipede

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

1. The House Fly, Disease Carrier: An Account of Its Dangerous Activities and by Leland Ossian Howard (1911)
"... THE house centipede There is a small, rather fragile-looking centipede, known scientifically as ..."

2. Insects Injurious to the Household and Annoying to Man by Glenn Washington Herrick (1914)
"THE house centipede Scutigera forceps The house centipede occurs commonly ... The house centipede is referred by most authors to that group of animals known ..."

3. Our Insect Friends and Enemies: The Relation of Insects to Man, to Other by John Bernhard Smith (1909)
"The specimens should really never be interfered with at all; but few persons like their looks and there FIG. lo1.—A house centipede, Scu- . ,t, -, . ..."

4. Outlines of Economic Zoölogy by Albert Moore Reese (1919)
"... so that it is a useful animal except for its poisonous bite. FIG. 57.—House centipede, Scutigera forceps. X/4. (From Marlatt, The house centipede. ..."

5. The Bermuda Islands: An Account of Their Scenery, Climate, Productions by Addison Emery Verrill (1902)
"house centipede (Scv tigera forceps); natural size; from Webster's International Dictionary ; after Marlatt. fond of moist places, like cellars and ..."

6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"house centipede. A myriapod with very long legs and long antennae, which is numerous in the Southern States, and brightly colored. ..."

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