| NOUN | animal | centipede | 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 |
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| Sounds | seh'ntihpiy.d | |
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| Rhymes | able-bodied ... worried: 105 rhymes with iyd... | |
| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Member of | Chilopoda, class Chilopoda | arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs |
| Narrower | house centipede, Scutigera coleoptrata | long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars |
| Broader | arthropod | invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin |
| Spanish | chilopoda, ciempiés, escolopendra | |
| Catalan | centcames, centpeus, escolopendra | |
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