| NOUN | animal | Chilopoda, class Chilopoda | arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs |
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| Meaning | arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs: centipedes. | |
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| Synonym | class Chilopoda | |
| Member of | Arthropoda, phylum Arthropoda | jointed-foot invertebrates |
| Members | Geophilomorpha, order Geophilomorpha | small elongate centipedes living in soil and under stones / stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs |
| Scutigeridae, family Scutigeridae | A family of Chilopoda | |
| 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 | |
| Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
| Spanish | quilópodos | |
| Catalan | Chilopoda | |
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