centipede

Noun
  1. Chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors (synset 101787316)
    is a type of: arthropod - invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
    subtypes: house centipede, scutigera coleoptrata - long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars
    belongs to: chilopoda, class chilopoda - arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs: centipedes

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