Hypertext Webster Gateway: "centipede"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Centiped \Cen"ti*ped\, n. [L. centipeda; centum a hundred + pes,
pedis, foot: cf. F. centip[`e]de.] (Zo["o]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} (?).]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
centipede
n : chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened
body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs the
foremost being modified into poison fangs
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