Centipede means "a hundred feet" which is close.
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100.Cent means 100.
"Centipede" (Cent = 100; Ped = Foot) means 100 footies. There is a creature called a "Centipede" which has many, many legs and feet.
This is called a centipede (having 100 legs) although it does not have 100.
A centipede would have 50 pairs of legs, adding to 100 legs. Cent is the French word for 100 (one hundred), and would therefore mean it would have 100 legs Centipedes do not always have 100 legs. They can have anywhere between 20 to 300 legs despite rumours of them having 100 Centipedes have one pair of legs per body segment. This differentiates them from millepedes, which have two pairs of legs per body segment.
No. They can't have 100 legs, but millipedes can.Also, interestingly, while centipedes can have from under 20 to hundreds of legs, they can never have 100 due to a weird trait of always having an odd number of pairs of legs, so the could have 98 or 102 legs, but never 100.
Neither. Despite the name "milli", which means "1000", there are no known millipedes with this many legs. Similarly, although "cent" means 100, centipedes do not have 100 legs. They vary from 20-300+ pairs.
Anything between 20 and 300. See link below.
A century means 100 years.
centipedes have 100 legs