Scolopendra

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  • n. A mythical sea-creature, reputed to be able to disgorge its bowels to dislodge any fishing-hook.
  • n. A centipede or millipede.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See centiped.
  • n. A sea fish.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Some imaginary sea-monster.
  • n. [capitalized] [NL. (Linnæus, 1735).] A Linnean genus of myriapods, approximately the same as the class Myriapoda, subsequently variously restricted, now the type of the limited family Scolopendridæ, and containing such centipeds as have the cephalic segments imbricate, four stemmatous ocelli on each side, attenuated antennæ, and twenty-one pairs of feet.
    • Word Usage
    "We came across the odd scorpion and an immense creature called scolopendra gigantean, which resembles a giant earwig and is one of the largest insects in the world."
    Variant
    centiped   
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