SCOLOPENDRA

DEFINITIONS CONTINUED
NOUNS
2. a fabulous sea-fish which ‘feeling himselfe taken with a hooke, casteth out his bowels, vntill hee hath vnloosed the hooke, and then swalloweth them vp againe’ (from Bullokar Eng. Expos. 1616) (obsolete)
3. a centipede or millipede;
also (with capital S), a Linnena genus of myriapods, including the largest and most formidable of the centipedes

also SCOLOPENDRIA (erroneous)

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ETYMOLOGY
Latin, from Greek σκολόπενδρα (skolopendra) centipede

EXAMPLE
(for definition 1)
From: The Works of Sr William D'avenant Kt, 1673
The Siege. Act V. P. 83