Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A centiped, as distinguished from a milleped or thousand-legs. See cut under
centiped .
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Examples
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One long, narrow boat that must have had twenty to a side looked like a hundred-legs skittering along.
A Crown of Swords Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1996
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There is, further, an immense group of arthropods, consisting of all insects, crab-like creatures, hundred-legs and their allies, with spiders, scorpions, tics and mites.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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