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nounchiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensorstype of:
Definition that contains centipede
- arthropoda jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
- geophilomorpha small elongate centipedes living in soil and under stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs
- chilopoda arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs: centipedes
- scutigerella garden centipedes
- genus geophilus type genus of the Geophilidae: a cosmopolitan genus of centipedes sometimes called earwigs
- geophilus type genus of the Geophilidae: a cosmopolitan genus of centipedes sometimes called earwigs
- phylum arthropoda jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
- class chilopoda arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs: centipedes
- superclass myriapoda used in some classifications to encompass the millipedes (Diplopoda) and centipedes (Chilopoda); formerly a large taxon including also the Pauropoda and Symphyla; the term Myriapoda now usually used synonymously with Diplopoda and limited to the millipedes
- genus scutigerella garden centipedes