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CENTIPEDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does centipede mean? 

CENTIPEDE (noun)
  The noun CENTIPEDE has 1 sense:

1. chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensorsplay

  Familiarity information: CENTIPEDE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CENTIPEDE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("centipede" is a kind of...):

arthropod (invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "centipede"):

house centipede; Scutigera coleoptrata (long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars)

Holonyms ("centipede" is a member of...):

Chilopoda; class Chilopoda (arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs: centipedes)


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