The Collaborative International Dictionary
thousand-legged worm
Thousand legs \Thou"sand legs`\ (Zo["o]l.) A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm.
Usage examples of "thousand-legged worm".
The expedition's searchlights had pinned a tremendous thousand-legged worm, and these things had been born from its flesh.
A fuzzy kind of a snake, like a thousand-legged worm, and very hairy.