a predatory myriapod invertebrate with a flattened elongated body composed of many segments. Most segments bear a single pair of legs, the front pair being modified as poison fangs 蜈蚣
Class Chilopoda: several orders 唇足纲: 数目
语源
mid 17th cent.: from French centipède or Latin centipeda, from centum 'a hundred' + pes, ped- 'foot'