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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 meronymChilopoda, class Chilopoda









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