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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Scōl'o-pĕn'drā, n.

noun

n. [Lat., Gr. σκολόπενδρα, Fr. scolopendre.] (Zoöl.) A genus of venomous myriapods; the centiped. See CENTIPED.

A long, segmented centipede with many pairs of legs curled into a loop.
Scolopendra.