Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order or suborder of insects, combining some characters which are now mostly manifested in widely distinct types.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
class within thesubphylum Myriapoda — the symphylans.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small class of minute arthropods; unimportant except for the garden centipede
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Examples
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I turned out to be a symphylan, an arthropod in the class Symphyla, distant relatives of insects.
An immaculate symphylan AYDIN 2007
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I turned out to be a symphylan, an arthropod in the class Symphyla, distant relatives of insects.
Archive 2007-12-01 AYDIN 2007
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Parapodia: the pro - or false legs: more specifically applied to the jointed abdominal processes of the Symphyla.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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