Meaning of thousand-legged worm | Babel Free

Definitions

A millipede.

US, uncommon

Examples

“... a thousand-legged worm was squirming down my back just over the spinal column.”

“[…] 149 stomaches examined […] showed 19 per cent of ants, 16 per cent of cut worms, 10 per cent of thousand-legged worms, 9 per cent of tent caterpillars, 8 per cent of ground beetles and other close allies, 6 per cent of May beetles and allies, 5 per cent of wire worm beetles and allies, 5 per cent of destructive weevils[…]”

“... a thousand-legged worm that one of the boys had stuck a pin through, to watch it writhe and bite itself behind the pin.”

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