What does chilopod mean?
Chilopod means Any myriapod of the class Chilopoda, a centipede..
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Any myriapod of the class Chilopoda, a centipede..
Consequently most chilopods are carnivorous, searching for earthworms, enchytraeids, and insects.
Important predatory groups in the beech forest at Göttinger Wald are chilopods, spiders, carabid and staphylinid beetles and gamasid mites. Chilopods consume a high proportion of collembolan populations and of other saprophagous groups (Poser, 1988, 1991).
However, the authors point out that the motoneurons' morphologies are dissimilar in hexapods and chilopods, a fact that argues against a homology of hexapodan and chilopodan longitudinal muscle motoneurons.
Use chilopod when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chilopod means Any myriapod of the class Chilopoda, a centipede..
Common synonyms include centipede.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Consequently most chilopods are carnivorous, searching for earthworms, enchytraeids, and insects.
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