Meaning & use
centipede
A many-legged, flat-bodied arthropod with one pair of legs on each body segment.
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A centipede scurried quickly under the log when we lifted it.
Despite its name, a centipede rarely has exactly one hundred legs.
A note on using this word
Centipedes are predators with venomous claws, unlike the plant-eating, more rounded millipede.
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