Centipede vs. Cockroach

Centipedenoun

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.

Cockroachnoun

A black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea.

Centipedenoun

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.

Cockroachnoun

A person or a member of a group of people regarded as undesirable and rapidly procreating.

Centipedenoun

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

Cockroachnoun

A Tutsi.

Centipede

Centipedes (from the New Latin prefix centi-, , and the Latin word pes, pedis, ) are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda (Ancient Greek χεῖλος, kheilos, lip, and New Latin suffix -poda, , describing the forcipules) of the subphylum Myriapoda, an arthropod group which also includes millipedes and other multi-legged creatures. Centipedes are elongated metameric creatures with one pair of legs per body segment.

‘hundred’; ‘foot’; ‘foot’;

Cockroachnoun

A derogatory term for a black-clad and black-masked protester in Hong Kong during the 2019 protests.

Cockroachnoun

An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.

Cockroachnoun

any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests

Cockroach

Cockroaches (or roaches) are insects of the order Blattodea, which also includes termites. About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats.