Meaning

2 senses
  1. Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.

    Tausendfüßler, Tausendfüßer m Hundertfüßler, Hundertfüßer

    сороконо́жкаsorokonóžka

    сороконі́жкаsorokonížka

    chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors

  2. (obsolete)A many-oared Chinese smuggling boat.

Examples

215 sentences
  1. How many legs do three centipedes have?

    Скільки лапок мають три сороконіжки?

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  2. Are you sure it's a centipede?

    ruЭто точно сороконожка?

    deSeid ihr euch sicher, daß das ein Hundertfüßler ist?

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  3. Tom hates centipedes.

    ruТом ненавидит многоножек.

    deTom hasst Hundertfüßer.

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  4. How many legs do centipedes have?

    Скільки у сороконіжок ніжок?

    ruСколько ног у сороконожек?

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  5. How many legs does a centipede have?

    Скільки ніг у багатоножки?

    ruСколько ног у многоножки?

    deWie viele Beine hat ein Tausendfüßler?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda:
Русский
By meaning 1
a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda:

Origin

From French centipède, from Latin centipeda, centipēs, from centi- (“hundred”) + pēs (“foo

From French centipède, from Latin centipeda, centipēs, from centi- (“hundred”) + pēs (“foot”); equivalent to centi- + -pede.

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