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centipede
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A centipede is an arthropod belonging to the class Chilopoda . Centipede may also refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from French centipède , from Latin centipeda "many-footed insect," from centum "hundred" (see hundred ) + pedis , genitive of pes "foot" (see foot (n.)).
Usage examples of centipede.
Related fads included trimming hats and dresses with lizards, spiders, toads, and centipedes.
His body was built low to the ground and on each side of it he had a couple of dozen stubby legs, like a centipede, and I knew that so long as he was back there behind them, the hobbies would try no monkey business.
Caudell remembered the first day of marching down at Camp Mangum, when an irate drill sergeant had compared their ragged line to a drunken centipede in an ass-kicking contest.
The arthropods, the most populous of the phyla, included creatures like insects, centipedes, millipedes, spiders, and crabs.
In the tropics, where centipedes can grow to a fearsome 30 cm in length, their victims include mice, birds and geckos.
The centipedes were still immured, and Edward made tentative overtures to David on the subject of broaching the case after dinner.
Spiders and bugs and praying mantises and yard-long centipedes, scuttling and crawling in an endless tide.
Centipede lovingly polished the horse roundels of mother-of-pearl inlay on the copper-and-gold-flecked lacquered ground of the scabbard.
He bets a hundred on a centipede called Marchesa, and down pops Marchesa like a trained pig at 20 to 1.
Out of the carrier crept a long device like a metal centipede, with flanged underside instead of legs.
It had many legs like a centipede, but its gleaming body segments were polished steel.
I may use the expression, a centipede, so to speak, without showing one.
I wonder he does n't have a midnight orgy with the centipedes, but I suppose Mary sees to that.
Renny's voice bawled out of the loudspeaker: "That queer centipede that disappeared after clawin' up the elevator starter -- well, it showed up again.
So from one man here, one man there, walking as swift as his oily glances, it became scuttles of dogmen begging gifts of trouble, pandering misery, seeking under carpets for centipede treads, watchful of night sweats, harkening by all bedroom doors to hear men twist basting themselves with remorse and warm-water dreams.