millipede (redirected from millepedes)

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.

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

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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]

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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.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

millipede - any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs millepede, milliped 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] n → milpiés m inv

millipede [ˈmɪlɪpiːd] n → mille-pattes m inv

millipede [ˈmɪlɪpiːd] n → Tausendfüßler m

millipede [ˈmɪlɪpiːd] n → millepiedi m inv

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millipede

n millipede [ˈmilipiːd]

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