Crossword-Solution: MILLIPEDE
We have 9 clues for the answer “MILLIPEDE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Many-legged arthropod | 1 answer |
| Thousand-legger | 1 answer |
| What a heel may come back as | 1 answer |
| small animal with a jointed body and many pairs of legs | 1 answer |
| MANY-footed crawling animal | 2 answers |
| MILLEPEDA | 2 answers |
| Myriapod. | 3 answers |
| millepede | 3 answers |
| A CREATURE THAT LIVES IN TREES | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EAZEMC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MILLIPEDE (5)
The millipede is what he loathes; He uses fierce bucolic oaths Because it eats his roots; And every gardener is agreed That, if you see a centipede Conversing with a milli--, On one of them you drop a stone, The other one you leave alone-- I think that's rather silly.
Thus, while no member of the insect tribe--when grown up--has more than six legs, the Centipede or the Millipede may, as their names imply, possess a far greater number--as many, indeed, as two hundred and forty-two! But there is one curious likeness between the legs of the insects and those of their relatives--the number of pairs of legs is always odd.
The insect has three pairs; the centipede and millipede have a very variable number, ranging from fifteen to one hundred and twenty-one pairs! We have seen how wonderful the foot of the fly is, with its two sticky plates for smooth surfaces, and its two claws for rough ones.
Another animal which shares with the hedgehog the defensive faculty of rolling itself up in a ball is the "pill millipede," a myriopod with seventeen pairs of legs, but fortunately exempt from the necessity of wearing trousers, which at present prices would impose an exorbitant demand on its resources.
Legs in every Atlantic and inland city,--legs in California and Oregon,--legs on the shores of 'Quoddy and of Lake Pontchartrain,--legs everywhere, like a millipede or a banian-tree.
Quotes with MILLIPEDE (2)
I prayed to a mystery. Sometimes I was simply aware of the mystery. I saw a flash of it during a trip to New York that David and I took before we were married. We were walking on a busy sidewalk in Manhattan. I don't remember if it was day or night. A man with a wound on his forehead came toward us. His damp, ragged hair might have been clotted with blood, or maybe it was only dirt. He wore deeply dirty clothes. His red, swollen hands, cupped in half-fists, swung loosely at h…
Human Millipede 6 was the highest-grossing movie of the summer and returned Nicholas Cage to Oscar-winning status.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1971–2022).