centipede
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈsɛnt.ɪ.pid/
centipede (plural centipedes)
- 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.
- 1993, Gordon M. Nishida, JoAnn M. Tenorio, What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'i's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin, page 29 ↗,
- Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment.
- 2011, Alan Gunn, Essential Forensic Biology, 2nd Edition, unnumbered page ↗,
- All centipedes (Chilopoda) and spiders (Aranea) are predatory and although they are often found on corpses their impact on the other fauna is not known.
- 1993, Gordon M. Nishida, JoAnn M. Tenorio, What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'i's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin, page 29 ↗,
- (any species of class Chilopoda) chilopod
- French: scolopendre
- German: Tausendfüßler, Tausendfüßer (rare, dated, or regional) Hundertfüßler, Hundertfüßer
- Italian: centopiedi
- Portuguese: centípede, centopeia, quilópode
- Russian: сороконо́жка
- Spanish: ciempiés, escolopendra
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