Meaning & use
Millipede
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A small arthropod with a long segmented body and two pairs of legs on most segments, which moves slowly and typically feeds on decaying plant matter.
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A millipede curled into a tight spiral when I nudged the log it was hiding under.
The garden was full of millipedes after the heavy rain soaked the soil.
A note on using this word
The name means 'thousand feet' in Latin, but no known species actually has that many legs; most have between 40 and 400.
Words with a similar meaning
diplopod
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