Hundred-legs

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Noun
  1. 1
    A centipede. archaic

    "Serial homology is most strikingly manifested in such a creature as the hundred-legs, or centipede."

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centipede

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"Serial homology is most strikingly manifested in such a creature as the hundred-legs, or centipede."

Etymology

A calque of Latin centipēs.

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