centipede
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.
Other meanings
A many-oared Chinese smuggling boat.
A kind of
- arthropod
Related words
- centipedal
- pseudocentipede
- centipede grass
- garden centipede
- house centipede
- sea centipede
- soil centipede
- stone centipede
- centipede game
- centipede-eater
- Amazonian giant centipede
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "centipeda".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “centipede” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.