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CENTIPEDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("centipede" is a kind of...):
arthropod (invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "centipede"):
house centipede; Scutigera coleoptrata (long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars)
Holonyms ("centipede" is a member of...):
Chilopoda; class Chilopoda (arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs: centipedes)
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