scolopendern.
/skɒləʊˈpɛndə/ 1. = scolopendra n. 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Chilopoda > member of
scolopender1562
centipede1601
scolopendra1608
forty-foot1677
millipede1684
forty legs1697
thousand-feet1704
thousand-legs1807
Meg-many-feet1813
chilopodan1835
chilopod1837
twenty-foot worm-
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Chilopoda > genus Scolopendra
scolopender1562
scolopendra1608
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Pauropoda > suborder Diplopoda or Chilognatha > member of (millepede)
scolopender1562
millipede1601
scolopendra1608
thousand-feet1704
thousand-legs1807
chilognathan1835
wireworm1838
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 55 The same [leaves of wild mint]..are dronken..agaynst scolopendres & stynginges of serpentes.
1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 138 Serpents, Salpeges, Scolopenders.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 553 Mint..is taken inwardly against Scolopenders.
1610 G. Marcelline Triumphs King James 5 His Squadrons are prepared, and consiste of Furyes, Scolopenders, Stellions, Phalanges, and Philemons, more mad and enraged then those of Orestes.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1045 The great earth Scolopender.
1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 37 Having put these Sea Scolopendres upon my fingers, they thrust a great number of their prickles into the skin, and caused a sharp pain for some hours.
1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 35 This creature, in its figure, is like the Land Scolopendre.
1867 Morning Star 29 Jan. The body and tail of a monster scolopender.
1881 C. Darwin Form. Veg. Mould ii. 62 Can the plugs aid in concealing the burrows from scolopenders,..the bitterest enemies of the worms?
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > types of mythical fish
verme1572
scolopendra1590
land-fish1609
scolopender1658
wyver-fish1857
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Scolopender,..also a certain fish, which having swallowed a hook vomited up its entrails, and rid of it sucketh them in again.
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the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > hart's-tongue
hart's-tonguec1325
hind's tongue1538
scolopendrium1611
scolopender1696
spleenwort1725
hart's-tongue fern1854
seaweed-fern1865
Christ's-hair1878
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Scolopender... Also a certain Medicinal Herb, vulgarly call'd Harts-Tongue, in Latin Scolopendria, such as Sea-green, Nightshade, Water Lentils, &c.
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