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

Derived forms: centipedes

Type of: arthropod

Part of: Chilopoda, class Chilopoda

Encyclopedia: Centipede

• singleton
• singletree
• Singlish
• singly
• singsong
• swaddle
• swaddling bands
• swaddling clothes
• swag
• swage
• swage block
• swagger
• swagger stick
• swaggerer
• swaggering
• swaggie
• swagman
• Swahili
• swain
• Swainsona
• Swainsona galegifolia
• Swainsona grandiflora
• Swainsona greyana
• swale
• swallow