Defenition of the word centipede

• Defenition of the word centipede

  • Any of various flattened, wormlike arthropods of the class Chilopoda, whose bodies are divided into many segments, each with one pair of legs.
  • chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs the foremost being modified into poison fangs
  • 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

Meronymys for the word centipede

• • Chilopoda
  • class Chilopoda

Hyponyms for the word centipede

• • house centipede
  • Scutigera coleoptrata

Hypernyms for the word centipede

• • arthropod

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