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centiped

centiped is the archaic form of centipede.

Meaning of centipede

Noun

centipede (plural centipedes)

  1. Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.
    • Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment.1993, Gordon M. Nishida, JoAnn M. Tenorio, What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'i's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin, page 29
  2. (obsolete) A many-oared Chinese smuggling boat.

Forms of centiped

pluralcentipeds

Origin of centiped

Equivalent to centi- + -ped.

Questions about centiped

What is centiped the archaic form of?
Centiped is the archaic form of centipede.

Words near centiped in the dictionary

  1. centinode
  2. centinodes
  3. centinormal
  4. centipawn
  5. centipawns
  6. centiped
  7. centipedal
  8. centipede
  9. centipede game
  10. centipede games
  11. centipede grass

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