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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Symphyla, class Symphylanoun

    small class of minute arthropods; unimportant except for the garden centipede

Wikipedia

  1. Symphyla

    Symphylans, also known as garden centipedes or pseudocentipedes, are soil-dwelling arthropods of the class Symphyla in the subphylum Myriapoda. Symphylans resemble centipedes, but are very small, non-venomous, and only distantly related to both centipedes and millipedes. They can move rapidly through the pores between soil particles, and are typically found from the surface down to a depth of about 50 centimetres (20 in). They consume decaying vegetation, but can do considerable harm in an agricultural setting by consuming seeds, roots, and root hairs in cultivated soil. Juveniles have six pairs of legs, but over a lifetime of several years, they add an additional pair at each moult so an adult instar usually has twelve pairs of legs. Most adult symphylans have twelve leg pairs, but the first pair is absent or vestigial in some species (e.g., those in the genus Symphylella), so adults in a few species have only eleven leg pairs. Symphylans lack eyes. Their long antennae serve as sense organs. They have several features linking them to early insects, such as a labium (fused second maxillae), an identical number of head segments and certain features of their legs.About 200 species are known worldwide.

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  1. symphyla

    Symphyla is a class of arthropods, often considered a sub-class of the Myriapoda, that includes small, typically soil-dwelling organisms that resemble centipedes. They typically have 12 body segments, 10 or 12 of which will have legs. Symphyla are often found in damp soil spaces as well as in leaf litter. They are sometimes referred to as garden centipedes or glasshouse symphylids.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Symphyla

    an order of small apterous insects having an elongated body, with three pairs of thoracic and about nine pairs of abdominal legs. They are, in many respects, intermediate between myriapods and true insects

  2. Etymology: [NL., fr. Gr. sy`n with + a clan.]

Wikidata

  1. Symphyla

    Symphylans, also known as garden centipedes or glasshouse symphylans, are soil-dwelling arthropods of the class Symphyla in the subphylum Myriapoda. Symphylans resemble centipedes, but are smaller and translucent. They can move rapidly through the pores between soil particles, and are typically found from the surface down to a depth of about 50 cm. They consume decaying vegetation, but can do considerable harm in an agricultural setting by consuming seeds, roots, and root hairs in cultivated soil. Juveniles have six pairs of legs, but, over a lifetime of several years, add an additional pair at each moult so that the adult instar has twelve pairs of legs. Lacking eyes, their long antennae serve as sense organs. They have several features linking them to early insects, such as a labium, an identical number of head segments and certain features of their legs. About 200 species are known worldwide.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Symphyla

    sim′fi-la, n.pl. an order or suborder of insects related to typical Thysanura, but resembling chilopods and having many abdominal legs.—adj. Sym′phyllous. [Gr. symphylos, of the same race—syn, with, phylon, a clan.]

Entomology

  1. Symphyla

    a group name for apterous species resembling myriapods in appearance, with functional abdominal legs and the genital openings on the last abdominal segment: regarded by some as connecting forms between insects and myriapods, e.g. Scolopendrella.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Symphyla in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Symphyla in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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