= scolopendra, n. 2.

Any of numerous carnivorous myriapods of the class Chilopoda characterized by an elongated body with many segments, the first segment bearing a pair…

A centipede or millipede. Also (with capital initial), a Linnean genus of myriapods, including the largest and most formidable of the centipedes.

†(a) = forty legs n.; (b) see quot. 1889.

A centipede. Obsolete.

a popular or dialectal name of the centipede.

a millepede or centipede.

= thousand-feet n.

Meg-many-feet n. also Meg-many-legs and variants. Scottish, Irish English, and English regional (northern). A centipede or millipede…

as main sense.

A member of the Chilopoda, an order of Myriapoda, having segmented bodies, and two anterior pairs of legs converted into foot-jaws. The order…

A centipede.