Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Centiped \Cen"ti*ped\, n. [L. centipeda; centum a hundred + pes,
   pedis, foot: cf. F. centip[`e]de.] (Zo["o]l.)
   A species of the Myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened,
   venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical
   climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of
   feet. [Written also {centipede} (?).]

Source : WordNet®

centipede
     n : chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened
         body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs the
         foremost being modified into poison fangs