sea centipede

noun

Any of various polychete worms.

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Meanings

nounsea centipede (plural sea centipedes)

plural sea centipedes · alternative sea-centipede

  1. Any of various polychete worms.

    Anemones with crimson centres waved their velvet tentacles at him, a colony of black sea-eggs moved their toledo-steel spines in sudden alarm and a hairy sea-centipede halted in its hundred strides and questioned with its eyeless head.

    1954, Ian Fleming, “Beau Desert”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 202

    Synonyms: sea forty legs

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAny of various polychete worms.

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sea forty legs

Translations

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