Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun centipede

1 sense of centipede

Sense 1
centipede -- (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)
       => arthropod -- (invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin)