centipede
pronunciation
How to pronounce centipede in British English:
UK [ˈsentɪpi:d]
How to pronounce centipede in American English:
US [ˈsɛntəˌpid]
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- Noun:
- chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs the foremost being modified into poison fangs
Word Origin
- centipede (n.)
- 1640s, from French centipède, from Latin centipeda "many-footed insect," from centum "hundred" (see hundred) + pedis, genitive of pes "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)).
Example
- 1. We can 't move like this , like a centipede .
- 2. The centipede slowly crawled out the window .
- 3. You by putting a centipede within !
- 4. They got as far as the the front door and found the centipede sitting there putting on his shoes .
- 5. The centipede slowly crawled out the window . The master 's friend slowly crawled out from under his seat .