Noun | 1. | family Geophilidae - small extremely elongate centipedes that live in earth arthropod family - any of the arthropods Geophilomorpha, order Geophilomorpha - small elongate centipedes living in soil and under stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs genus Geophilus, Geophilus - type genus of the Geophilidae: a cosmopolitan genus of centipedes sometimes called earwigs |