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Centipede
Cen′ti-pede
,Noun.
[L.
centipeda
; centum
a hundred + pes
, pedis
, foot: cf. F. centipède
.] (Zool.)
A species of the
Myriapoda
; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda
, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet. [Formerly also
χίλιοι
centiped
([GREEK]).] Definition 2024
centipede
centipede
English
A centipede.
Noun
centipede (plural centipedes)
- 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.
- 1993, Gordon M. Nishida, JoAnn M. Tenorio, What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'i's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin, page 29,
- Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment.
- 2008, Thom Holmes, March Onto Land: The Silurian Period to the Middle Triassic Epoch, page 58,
- 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.
- 2011, Alan Gunn, Essential Forensic Biology, 2nd Edition, unnumbered page,
- 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.
- 1993, Gordon M. Nishida, JoAnn M. Tenorio, What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'i's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin, page 29,
Synonyms
- (any species of class Chilopoda): chilopod
Translations
a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
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