Meanings
nouncentipede (plural centipedes)
plural centipedes · alternative archaic centiped
- 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.
Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment.
1993, Gordon M. Nishida, JoAnn M. Tenorio, What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'i's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin, page 292 more examples
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.
2008, Thom Holmes, March Onto Land: The Silurian Period to the Middle Triassic Epoch, page 58All centipedes (Chilopoda) and spiders (Aranea) are predatory and although they are often found on corpses their impact on the other fauna is not known.
2011, Alan Gunn, Essential Forensic Biology, 2nd edition, unnumbered pageSynonyms: chilopod, forty legs, hundred-legs
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny 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.
nounA many-oared Chinese smuggling boat.
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Afrikaans duisendpoot
- duisendpoota segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Ancient Greek ἴουλος
- ἴουλος (íoulos)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Arabic أُمّ أَرْبَعَة وَأَرْبَعِين
- أُمّ أَرْبَعَة وَأَرْبَعِينa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Bengali কেন্নো
- কেন্নো (kennō)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Bulgarian стоно́жка
- стоно́жка (stonóžka)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Catalan centpeus
- centpeusa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Chinese Cantonese 百足, 蜈蚣
- 百足 (baak³ zuk¹)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- 蜈蚣 (ng⁴ gung¹)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Chinese Mandarin 蜈蚣
- 蜈蚣 (wúgōng)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Czech stonožka
- stonožkaa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Danish skolopender
- skolopendera segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Dutch duizendpoot
- duizendpoota segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Esperanto centpiedulo
- centpieduloa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Estonian sadajalgne
- sadajalgnea segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Finnish juoksujalkainen
- juoksujalkainena segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
French scolopendre
- scolopendrea segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
German Tausendfüßler, Tausendfüßer m Hundertfüßler
- Tausendfüßlera segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- Tausendfüßer m Hundertfüßlera segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- Hundertfüßera segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Greek σαρανταποδαρούσα
- σαρανταποδαρούσα (sarantapodaroúsa)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Hawaiian kanapī
- kanapīa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Hebrew נָדָל
- נָדָל (nadal)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Hindi कनखजूरा, खजूरा
- कनखजूरा (kanakhjūrā)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- खजूरा (khajūrā)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- कनसलाई (kanaslāī)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- शतपाद (śatpād)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- शतपद (śatpad)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- शतपदी (śatapdī)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- गोजर (gojar)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- चालीसपद (cālīspad)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Hungarian százlábú
- százlábúa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Icelandic margfætla
- margfætlaa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Indonesian kelabang, lipan
- kelabanga segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- lipana segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Irish céadchosach
- céadchosacha segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Italian centopiedi
- centopiedia segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Japanese 百足
- 百足 (mukade)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Korean 지네
- 지네 (jine)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Latin centipeda, scolopendra
- centipedaa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- scolopendraa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Latvian simtkāji
- simtkājia segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Lithuanian lūpakojai
- lūpakojaia segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Malay lipan, sepesan
- lipana segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- sepesana segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- kelabanga segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Māori weri, wakapihau
- weria segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- wakapihaua segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Norwegian skolopender
- skolopendera segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Persian صدپا, پرپا
- صدپا (sad-pâ)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- پرپاa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Polish stonoga, parecznik
- stonogaa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- parecznika segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Portuguese centopeia, lacraia
- centopeiaa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- lacraiaa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- centípedea segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- quilópodea segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Romanian centiped
- centipeda segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Russian сороконо́жка
- сороконо́жка (sorokonóžka)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Slovak stonožka
- stonožkaa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Spanish ciempiés, escolopendra
- ciempiésa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- escolopendraa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- cientopiésa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Swahili tandu
- tandua segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Swedish enkelfoting, tusenfoting
- enkelfotinga segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- tusenfotinga segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Tagalog alupihan
- alupihana segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Tamil பூரான்
- பூரான் (pūrāṉ)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Thai ตะขาบ
- ตะขาบ (dtà-kàap)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Turkish çıyan
- çıyana segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Ukrainian сороконі́жка
- сороконі́жка (sorokonížka)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Urdu کَنْکَھجُورا
- کَنْکَھجُورا (kankhajūrā)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Vietnamese rết, rít
- rếta segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- ríta segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- títa segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Welsh neidr gantroed
- neidr gantroeda segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Yiddish סענטיפּעדע
- סענטיפּעדע (sentipede)a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
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