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sea centipedes

sea centipedes is the plural 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

Questions about sea centipedes

What is sea centipedes the plural of?
Sea centipedes is the plural of sea centipede.

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