Centipede
Centipede noun - Chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors.
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Worm
Worm noun - Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae.
Centipede and worm are semantically related in larva topic. You can use "Centipede" instead a noun "Worm".
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There're also the eyeballs with tentacles that do nothing, and the large centipede/worm creatures that don't attack you, but always watch you and talk about how much pain they're in, or ask you what eases your pain, or other such pleasant topics.
Source: Nightmare Fuel / Video Games -
The Worm That Walks: Inverted.First Sequence contains examples of: All Animals Are Dogs: Heiter attempts to invoke this with the centipede by trying to get it to fetch the newspaper.
Source: Film / The Human Centipede -
There's also the frost worm (based directly off of the yakhmar from The Lair of the Ice Worm) and the Remorhaz (also inspired by the yakhmar, but is a bit more like a giant centipede than a worm and burrows through ice and snow with a body temperature that rivals molten iron).
Source: Sand Worm
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