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millipede
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of many elongated arthropods, of the class Diplopoda, with cylindrical bodies that have two pairs of legs for each one of their 20 to 100 or more body segments.(From 1600)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs [syn: millepede , milliped ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Milleped \Mil"le*ped\ (m[i^]l"l[-e]*p[e^]d[i^]), n. [L. millepeda; mille a thousand + pes, pedis, foot: cf. F. mille-pieds.] (Zo["o]l.) A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm. [Written also millipede and milliped .]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A millipede is a myriapod with two pairs of legs on most segments. "Millipede" may also refer to: Millipede (video game) , 1982 arcade sequel to Centipede IBM Millipede , a MEMS technology for non-volatile data storage
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also millepede , c.1600, from Latin millepeda "wood louse," a type of crawling insect, from mille "thousand" (see million ) + pes (genitive pedis ) "foot" (see foot (n.)). Probably a loan-translation of Greek chiliopous .
Usage examples of millipede.
The other was filled with an enormous fanlike artificial construction mounted on struts sufficient to make a millipede jealous.
Vascay to Metron, then beyond the wizard to take in the forest of giant grass and brambles through which the millipede paced.
The arthropods, the most populous of the phyla, included creatures like insects, centipedes, millipedes, spiders, and crabs.
Pan global corporatisation is coming whether we like it or not and as of next month Caspari and Millipede will be folded into the publishing arm of the Deutsche Submarine Corporation.
While the pack of wolf-monkeys howled and gibbered toward Fulla, Skellum sent a quartet of man-sized millipedes scurrying after them.
They looked like giant spiders, huge millipedes, armor-plated lizards and flying scorpions.
Keep the trap damp, and every few days uncover it, pull it out, and dunk the millipedes in soapy water.
Before the era was out some millipedes would reach lengths more than double that.
She pried up boulders and released a scattering of invertebrates: nematodes, mites, sowbugs, altered millipedes.
And the giant millipede would have devoured them all, but that Burl gave commands and set the example, and he had marched magnificently up the mountainside when it seemed that all the cosmos twisted and prepared to drop them into an inverted sky.
Hanuman was writing at that time in the compact, rather inflexible Latin of the Augustan age, and he wrote with almost no margins in a script hardly thicker than the legs of a millipede.
On the other side I noticed a number of bright orange (probably poisonous) millipedes which weren't being harmed by the ants but which seemed to be unable or unwilling to cross the ant trail.
They needed to run the engine to break it in before leaving, but with the ventilation system gone, the exhaust fumes mixed with the previous oil smoke and the mounting stink of the aced millipedes into a noxious reek that was getting worse by the minute.
Out of the tunnel hissed a giant aluminum millipede, its nose windowless and crossed by a radiance of green lines.
Headlights washed like klieg lights across these thick swathes of living matter, highlighting faces and hands as if they were segments of one vast millipede making its laborious way across the city.