noun. Any of various predatory arthropods of the class Chilopoda, having a long flattened body composed of segments, each bearing a pair of jointed appendages. The appendages of the foremost body segment are modified into venomous claws.

noun. A species of the Myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet.

noun. A segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda with a large number of legs, traditionally one hundred (though most species have far fewer.)

noun. 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

"The asymmetrical advantage that enables a "centipede" is that the conspirators themselves are never outed."