Centipede has three syllables.
no! centipede have not have 3 pairs of legs!
A south American species named Scolopendra Gigantea, which there is a dark version that is larger than the nominate red "Giant Amazonian/Peruvian"
"Centipede" (Cent = 100; Ped = Foot) means 100 footies. There is a creature called a "Centipede" which has many, many legs and feet.
That is impossible. Four men get a THREE foot long sandwhich, each get a FOOT, there is no way humanly possible to do that.
A three-foot rule
the largest centipede FOUND (key word: found) was at about 9 inches long in the UK. then, someone in Venezuela claims to have seen a centipede about 18 inches long. but just because humans have seen/caught centipedes this long, it doesn't make it the largest!
3"A quarter of a foot is .25 feet, or three (3) inches.
50 cm xx
They are called centipedes. Centi- means hundred, and pede means foot. When they are put together, you have the word centipede. There is a species of bug called a centipede. I have them in my backyard.
Centipede comes from the Latin roots centi which means "one thousand" and from pede which means "relating to the foot".
the millennium rod is one foot and three inches long