If you just look at the prefix on the name. 'Centi' translates to mean 100 and milli translates to mean 1000. However, most of either species don't have as many legs as their name implies.
Although some species of centipede do indeed have 100 legs it can vary from less than 100 to 200. Therefore it is more correct to say that a centipede can have 100 legs rather than it does have this many.
Yes, centipede really does mean "100-footed," and yes, some centipedes actually do have 100 feet, but no, not all do. In fact, some centipedes have more than 100 feet, and some have as few as 30. Perhaps, mathematicians , not scientists, should have done the calculations, and should have named this member of the species "Myriapoda," Latin for many footed. Likewise, a millipede likely doesn't have 1,000 feet, as it's name implies.
In "James and the Giant Peach," the Centipede has 42 legs.
a centipede have 40 legs
A creature with one hundred legs is called a "centipede."
A centipede has two legs per segment, one on each side. And they usually stick out to the side of the centipede. A milipede has 4 legs per segment, two on each side, and they are usually more under the body of the milipede.
A house centipede has up to 18 legs depending on the breed of centipede. This is the only insect that has that many legs.
half a centipede.
An centipede has exactly 100 legs.
10,000,000 legs
In "James and the Giant Peach," the Centipede has 42 legs.
A centipede can have up to 124 tiny legs, but a centipede is not the creature with the most legs . . . the millipede is.
There are over fifty species of centipede in the genus Scolopendra. They have about 40 legs.
centipedes- 700-950 legs millipedes- 350,000-700,000 legs
All centipedes have 100 legs, hence the name centipede (centi meaning 100).
a centepide has 100 legs
a centipede have 40 legs
no! centipede have not have 3 pairs of legs!
there was a centipede on that girls back,and she got scared.