millipede

/mil-uh-peed/US // ˈmɪl əˌpid //UK // (ˈmɪlɪˌpiːd) //

千足虫,千里马,千里眼,千手观音

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : any terrestrial arthropod of the class Diplopoda, having a cylindrical body composed of 20 to more than 100 segments, each with two pairs of legs.

Take the oversize dragonflies and millipedes now preserved as fossils.
Dragonflies had a wingspan of three feet, millipedes were eight feet long.
If there is pathos in this, there is bathos in his apostrophe to the millipede, beginning "Poor sowbug!"
The monstrous millipede stood immobile, trapped for the moment by the gratification of all its desires.
The creature was a monstrous millipede, forty feet in length, with features of purest, unadulterated horror.
And this could have been safety for them—save for the giant millipede no more than half a mile below.
The Captain and Murray fell in at the tail of the quivering millipede.