Centipede vs Roach - What's the difference?
centipede | roach |
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,
A small freshwater fish in the carp family (Cyprinidae ), .
(US) A cockroach.
(US, slang, smoking) A butt of a marijuana cigarette.
(UK, slang, smoking) The filter of a rolled cigarette or joint, made from card or paper.
(nautical) An extra curve of material added to the leech edge of a sail to increase the sail area.
A kind of headdress worn by some of the indigenous peoples of North America.
As a noun centipede
is (lb).As an adjective centipede
is having a hundred feet.As a proper noun roach is
.centipede
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.
unnumbered page,
- 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.