Usually means: Long-bodied, many-legged, segmented arthropod.
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  1. centipede: Merriam-Webster
  2. centipede: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. centipede: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. centipede: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. centipede: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. centipede: Wiktionary
  9. centipede: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. centipede: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. centipede: Infoplease Dictionary
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  13. centipede: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. centipede: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Centipede (Knife Party song), Centipede (Rebbie Jackson song), Centipede (album), Centipede (arcade game), Centipede (band), Centipede (disambiguation), Centipede (video game), Centipede: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  20. centipede: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. centipede: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Centipede: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  4. centipede: Medical dictionary
  5. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

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  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)

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  1. centipede: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.
noun:  (obsolete) A many-oared Chinese smuggling boat.

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