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sea-centipede

sea-centipede is the alternative form of sea centipede.

Meaning of sea centipede

Noun

sea centipede (plural sea centipedes)

  1. Any of various polychete worms.
    • Anemones with crimson centres waved their velvet tentacles at him, a colony of black sea-eggs moved their toledo-steel spines in sudden alarm and a hairy sea-centipede halted in its hundred strides and questioned with its eyeless head.1954, Ian Fleming, “Beau Desert”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 202
    Synonyms:
    sea forty legs

Forms of sea-centipede

pluralsea-centipedes

Questions about sea-centipede

What is sea-centipede the alternative form of?
Sea-centipede is the alternative form of sea centipede.

Words near sea-centipede in the dictionary

  1. sea-buttons
  2. sea-calf
  3. sea-calfs
  4. sea-calves
  5. sea-catgut
  6. sea-centipede
  7. sea-centipedes
  8. sea-chameleon
  9. sea-chameleons
  10. sea-change
  11. sea-changes

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