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scolopendrine, a.|skɒləʊˈpɛndrɪn|
[f. mod.L. Scolopendrinæ, f. Scolopendra (the Linnean genus: see scolopendra 2) + -ine.]
Resembling or related to the centipedes. scolopendrine scale-back, a polychætous marine annelid of the genus Polynoë, as P. scolopendrina; a kind of sea-centipede. Also fig.
1882Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 230 This Scolopendrine Scale-back [Polynoe scolopendrina] is four inches in length. 1963V. Nabokov Gift iv. 257 He left a scolopendrine trace in literature as the translator of foreign poets. |