centipede : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: centipede	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for centipede
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
centipede n 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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Centiped \Cen"ti*ped\, n. [L. centipeda; centum a hundred + pes, pedis, foot: cf. F. centip[8a]de.] (Zo[94]l.) A species of the Myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet. [Written also {centipede} ([?]).]