Cockroach vs Centipede - What's the difference?
cockroach | centipede |
A black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea .
(offensive, slang) An unhygienic person or a member of a group of people regarded as unhygienic or rapidly procreating.
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.
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As nouns the difference between centipede and cockroach
is that centipede is 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 while cockroach is a black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea.cockroach
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(wikipedia cockroach)Noun
(es)Synonyms
* (black or brown insect) roach (US)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.
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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.