0 a small, long, thin animal with many legs
1 a small animal like a worm with a long, thin body and many legs
A centipede walks on many small legs, and it can even run if there is danger.
Centipedes also have two larger, special legs that they use to catch and eat their food – like teeth!
Millipedes have more legs than centipedes, but millipedes move slowly because they have short legs that can’t go very far.
The word centipede means “one hundred feet,” but some centipedes have only thirty feet, whereas others have three hundred!
A big centipede—it was seven inches, for we measured it afterwards—fell from the rafters overhead squarely into her coiffure.
All those found in the Northern States are perfectly harmless, the true centipede, whose bite is reputed much more venomous than it really is, being found only in the South.
