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单词 scolopendra
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scolopendran.

/skɒləʊˈpɛndrə/
Forms: Also 1600s scolopendria.
Etymology: Latin, < Greek σκολόπενδρα.
1. A fabulous sea-fish which ‘feeling himselfe taken with a hooke, casteth out his bowels, vntill hee hath vnloosed the hooke, and then swalloweth them vp againe’ (Bullokar Eng. Expos. 1616).
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > types of mythical fish
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scolopendra1590
land-fish1609
scolopender1658
wyver-fish1857
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aav Bright Scolopendraes, arm'd with siluer scales.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 154 But if the Scolopendra have suckt in The sower-sweet morsell with the barbed Pinne, She hath as rare a trick to ridd her from-it: For instantly, she all her guts doth vomit, [etc.].
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Scolopendra, a fish that feeling himselfe taken with a hooke, casteth out his bowels, vntill hee hath vnloosed the hooke, and then swalloweth them vp againe.
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi viii. §1. 384 The Scolopendra is a fish..which refuseth not the bait.
2. A centipede or millipede. Also (with capital initial), a Linnean genus of myriapods, including the largest and most formidable of the centipedes.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Chilopoda > member of
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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
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 31 There are Scolopendraes Vipers, and Slow-wormes in Creete, yet..they are without venome.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Scolopendre, the Scolopendria, a reddish, many-legd, and venomous worme.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xv. 142 Upon the same ground hath arisen the same mistake concerning the Scolopendra or hundred footed insect. View more context for this quotation
1677 E. Browne Acct. Trav. Germany 17 An Indian Scolopendria, or Forty-foot.
1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) at Dying [Advancement of] The amber-coloured scolopendra will give, with lye, a most beautiful and pleasant azure.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxiii. 167 We discovered some scolopendras, or centipedes, no less than eight or ten inches in length.
1829 H. Murray Hist. Acct. Discoveries & Trav. N. Amer. I. xi. 516 Rattlesnakes and scolopendras crawled about.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. v. ii. 265 The Scolopendra are insects belonging to the order Myriopoda and to the family Chilopoda. They are commonly termed Millipedes.
3. Applied in reproach to a woman. Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in reproach > female
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giba1529
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fleak1636
1633 J. Shirley Gamester ii. ii More wine, you varlets! And call your mistress up, you scolopendra.
1673 Siege in W. Davenant Wks. v. 83/1 Go bring a Barrel hither; why? when you Scolopendra.
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