Usually means: Arthropods with many paired legs.
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  1. centipedes: Merriam-Webster
  2. centipedes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. centipedes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Centipedes, centipedes: Wordnik
  5. centipedes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. centipedes: Wiktionary
  7. centipedes: Dictionary.com
  8. centipedes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Centipedes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Centipedes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Centipedes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. centipedes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. centipedes: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (centipede)

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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