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from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of the class Myriapoda; the myriapods or millepeds proper, or thousand-legs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrally, near together.
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