millepede
Segmented soil dweller
Millepede is a variant spelling of millipede—a long-bodied arthropod with many legs, typically two pairs per body segment.
Despite the name suggesting a thousand feet, most species have between 30 and 400 legs.
Millipedes are slow-moving detritivores that curl into spirals when threatened: A millipede crept across the forest floor.
- invertebrateAnimal sans backbone
- curling upDrawing limbs inward
- arthropodJointed-limb invertebrate phylum
- segmentedDivided into sections
- detritivoreEats dead organic material
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