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2 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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