Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of the class Myriapoda; the centipeds, or hundred-legs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipedes. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
class within thesubphylum Myriapoda — thecentipedes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs: centipedes
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This new genus is Pilbarascutigera and is described in the paper A new genus of scutigerid centipeds (Chilopoda) from Western Australia, with new characters for morphological phylogenetics of Scutigeromorpha by G.D. Edgecombe and L. Barrow within Zootaxa 1409: 23-50 (2007)
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They don't want to carry the burden of having to provide health care to their employees and they know that having to do so lessens their competitive edge. lokidog Says: shoeless Chilopoda Says:
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It is immoral that the richest country in the world (for now) does not have universal healthcare for its people. shoeless Chilopoda Says: lokidog Says: shoeless Chilopoda Says:
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You will never hear anyone in the MSM mention this idea. lokidog Says: shoeless Chilopoda Says:
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RantingTommy Says: aww, "independent" must be stinging from the spanking he got once the FACTS came out no wonder the right wingers fear facts so much. facts always kick their a$$ shoeless Chilopoda Says: independent989 Says:
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I wonder why insurance and care was so much better then. shoeless Chilopoda Says:
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It's a question of why and how the phuque anyone would have believed him to begin with. lokidog Says: shoeless Chilopoda Says:
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And who pays the most? this is from the story as well independent: shoeless Chilopoda Says:
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Instead of just going to the guy down the street because, well he's down the street. shoeless Chilopoda Says:
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The people can just wait until I collect my millions as a lobbyist against their interests. independent989 Says: shoeless Chilopoda Says:
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