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Small class of minute arthropods
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symphyla
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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 smaller and translucent , and only distantly related to true centipedes. ...
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Symphyla \Sym*phy"la\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. sy`n with + ? a clan.] (Zo["o]l.) 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 ...