millipede

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.

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From Latin mīllipeda (“wood louse”), from mīlle (“thousand”) + pēs, pedis (“foot”), equivalent to milli- + -pede.

diplopod

centipede myriapod

black millipede flat-backed millipede millipedal millipede burn millipedic pill millipede

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