centipede
/ˈsɛn.tɪ.pid/
centipede noun: 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.
Noun
centipede (plural centipedes)
- 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
- The existence of millipedes, centipedes, insects, and spiders along-side the first tetrapods sustained a robust ecosystem in which most animals were predators or scavengers.2008, Thom Holmes, March Onto Land: The Silurian Period to the Middle Triassic Epoch, page 58
- Synonyms:
- chilopod, forty legs, hundred-legs
- A many-oared Chinese smuggling boat.
- Synonyms:
- fast crab, scrambling dragon
centipede meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
centipede in Hindi
- a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- कनखजूरा kanakhjūrā, खजूरा khajūrā, कनसलाई kanaslāī, शतपाद śatpād, शतपद śatpad, शतपदी śatapdī
centipede in Tamil
- a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- பூரான் pūrāṉ
centipede in Urdu
- a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- کَنْکَھجُورا kankhajūrā
centipede in Bengali
- a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
- কেন্নো kennō
More languagesFewer languages
- centipede in Malayalam
- പഴുതാര paḻutāra
- centipede in Kannada
- ವೃಶ್ಚಿಕ vṛścika
- centipede in Punjabi
- ਕੰਨਖਜੂਰਾ kannkhajūrā
- centipede in Gujarati
- શતપદ śatpad
- centipede in Sanskrit
- वृश्चिक vṛścika
- centipede in Assamese
- চেলা sela
- centipede in Nepali
- खजुरो khajuro
- centipede in Tagalog
- alupihan
- centipede in Arabic
- أُمّ أَرْبَعَة وَأَرْبَعِين
- centipede in Malay
- lipan, sepesan, kelabang
- centipede in Indonesian
- kelabang, lipan
- centipede in Persian
- صدپا sad-pâ, پرپا
- centipede in Thai
- ตะขาบ dtà-kàap
- centipede in Vietnamese
- rết, rít, tít
- centipede in Myanmar
- ကင်းခြေများ kang:hkre-mya:
Synonyms of centipede
Forms of centipede
| plural | centipedes |
|---|---|
| alternative form (archaic) | centiped |
Origin of centipede
From French centipède, from Latin centipeda, centipēs, from centi- (“hundred”) + pēs (“foot”); equivalent to centi- + -pede.
Words formed from centipede
Phrases with centipede
Questions about centipede
- What does centipede mean?
- Centipede means 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.
- What is centipede in Hindi?
- Centipede in Hindi is कनखजूरा (kanakhjūrā), खजूरा (khajūrā), कनसलाई (kanaslāī). See Centipede meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is centipede?
- Centipede is a noun.
- How do you pronounce centipede?
- Centipede is pronounced /ˈsɛn.tɪ.pid/ (UK).
- What is the plural of centipede?
- The plural of centipede is centipedes.
Words near centipede in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: centipede (page history and authors); ವೃಶ್ಚಿಕ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਕੰਨਖਜੂਰਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); શતપદ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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