Centipede

Quick meaning: Centipede is a noun meaning Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.

Meaning

Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) A many-oared Chinese smuggling boat.

Example Sentences

Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment.

All centipedes (Chilopoda) and spiders (Aranea) are predatory and although they are often found on corpses their impact on the other fauna is not known.

The existence of millipedes, centipedes, insects, and spiders along-side the first tetrapods sustained a robust ecosystem in which most animals were predators or scavengers.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for centipede

Depending on context, synonyms include chilopod, hundred-legs.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chilopod, insect, scolopendra, chelicerate, galleyworm, pediciid.

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