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Noun: garden centipede
  1. Minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops
    "Garden centipedes damaged the root systems of young plants";
    - garden symphilid, symphilid, Scutigerella immaculata

Derived forms: garden centipedes

Type of: arthropod

Part of: genus Scutigerella, Scutigerella

Encyclopedia: Garden centipede