Scolopendra, scolopendræ, Piscis. Plin. A certaine fish which being taken with an angle, casteth out all his bowels vntill the hooke be out, and then sucketh them vp againe. Also a worme with many legges.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
scŏlŏpendra, ae, f., = skolo/pendra.I.A kind of multipede, a scolopendra, Plin. 8, 29, 43, 104.—II.A kind of sea-fish, Plin. 9, 43, 67, 143.