garden centipede

1. 1.

   minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops

   Synonymsgarden symphilidsymphilidScutigerella immaculata

   Broaderarthropod

   Part ofScutigerella

Questions about garden centipede

What does garden centipede mean?

garden centipede means "minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops".

What is another word for garden centipede?

Close synonyms include garden symphilid, symphilid, Scutigerella immaculata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garden centipede a common word?

garden centipede is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.