Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various arthropods of the class Diplopoda, having a cylindrical segmented body with two pairs of legs attached to each segment except for the first four thoracic segments, and feeding chiefly on decaying organic matter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
milleped .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of many
elongated arthropods , of theclass Diplopoda , withcylindrical bodies that have twopairs oflegs for each one of their 20 to 100 or more bodysegments .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Now I want one and have to convince mom why having a 10 inch long, millipede, which is a veggetarian (but will eat carrion) is a good pet.
dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008
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It's called a millipede migration and there could be a number of reasons why the bugs are coming up from the ground and swarming around homes.
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In one kind of millipede, in the male the last pair of legs has a sound-producing apparatus, consisting of a ridged plate, which, by being rubbed against a set of tiny, bead-like bodies set in the surface of the last shield covering the body, produces a peculiar noise.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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I like the Shangalulu Pub (I'm told Shangalulu means 'millipede') on the lower level of the building, which has a bar made out of the stern of a boat, and the Tanga Beach Restaurant, which, incidentally, means 'sail' in Swahili and 'string bikini' in German.
unknown title 2009
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On the list are an ornate sleeper ray, Electrolux; a 75-million-year-old giant duck-billed dinosaur; a shocking pink millipede (see image); a rare, off-the-shelf frog; one of the most venomous snakes in the world; a fruit bat; a mushroom; a jellyfish named after its victim; a life-imitates-art "Dim" rhinoceros beetle; and the "Michelin Man" plant.
Science Maxine 2009
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The list of ten species, with illustrations (none of which is as pink as the millipede), can be seen here.
Science Maxine 2009
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Last night at close to 1: 30 AM I took a pause in walking up some stairs to get to my room in order to rescue a tiny little millipede and return him to his home outside.
I Mean You. karenhealey 2010
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When Roger was small, his two favorite toys were a tiny, squat doll named Care and a rubber millipede.
care & danger Shelagh Power-Chopra 2011
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A monarch, a sheep moth, a millipede defend a world I can never enter though
A Bestiary of Sorts, in Miniature Sam Rasnake 2011
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As I watched, the six individuals skiing in single file ahead of me became a single indistinguishable mass with numerous flailing limbs, like an oversized millipede.
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