Aardvark vs Centipede - What's the difference?
aardvark | centipede |
The nocturnal, insectivorous, burrowing, mammal
A silly or credulous person who is prone to mistakes or blunders.
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.
* 1993 , Gordon M. Nishida, JoAnn M. Tenorio, What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'i's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin ,
* 2008 , Thom Holmes, March Onto Land: The Silurian Period to the Middle Triassic Epoch ,
* 2011 , Alan Gunn, Essential Forensic Biology , 2nd Edition,
As nouns the difference between aardvark and centipede
is that aardvark is the nocturnal, insectivorous, burrowing, mammal while centipede is (lb).As an adjective centipede is
having a hundred feet.aardvark
English
(wikipedia aardvark) (Orycteropus afer)Alternative forms
* aard-vark, erdvarkNoun
(en noun)- The aardvark burrows in the ground and feeds mostly on termites, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.
- I walked into the wrong bathroom like a total aardvark .
Synonyms
* (mammal) African anteater, antbear, ant bear or ant-bear, anteater, earth pigcentipede
English
(wikipedia centipede) (Chilopoda)Noun
(en noun)page 29,
- Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment.
page 58,
- The existence of millipedes, centipedes , insects, and spiders along-side the first tetrapods sustained a robust ecosystem in which most animals were predators or scavengers.
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- All centipedes (Chilopoda) and spiders (Aranea) are predatory and although they are often found on corpses their impact on the other fauna is not known.