English noun: centipede | |||
1. | centipede (animal) 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 (hypernym) | arthropod | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | house centipede, Scutigera coleoptrata | ||
Member meronym | Chilopoda, class Chilopoda | ||