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millipede
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mil·li·pede or mil·le·pede  (ml-pd)
n.
Any of various crawling herbivorous myriapods of the class Diplopoda, found worldwide and having a cylindrical segmented body with two pairs of legs attached to all segments except for the first four in the thoracic region. Also called diplopod.

[Latin mlipeda, a kind of insect : mlle, thousand; see gheslo- in Indo-European roots + ps, ped-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots.]

millipede or millepede
Noun
a small crawling animal with a cylindrical many-segmented body, each segment of which bears two pairs of legs [Latin mille thousand + pes foot]

millipede  (ml-pd)
Any of various wormlike arthropods of the class Diplopoda, having a long body composed of many narrow segments, most of which have two pairs of legs. Millipedes feed on plants and, unlike centipedes, do not have venomous pincers. Compare centipede.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.millipedemillipede - any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs
arthropod - invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
class Diplopoda, class Myriapoda, Diplopoda, Myriapoda - arthropods having the body composed of numerous double somites each with two pairs of legs: millipedes
Translations

millipede [ˈmɪlɪpiːd] nmilpiés m inv
millipede [ˈmɪlɪpiːd] nmille-pattes m inv
millipede [ˈmɪlɪpiːd] nTausendfüßler m
millipede [ˈmɪlɪpiːd] nmillepiedi m inv

millipede
n millipede [ˈmilipiːd]
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