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Millepede

noun
1.
Any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs.  Synonyms: milliped, millipede.





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"Millepede" Quotes from Famous Books



... hot dry season, and more especially in the northern portions of the island, the eye is attracted along the edges of the sandy roads by fragments of the dislocated rings of a huge species of millepede[1], lying in short curved tubes, the cavity admitting the tip of the little finger. When perfect the creature is two-thirds of a foot long, of a brilliant jet black, and with above a hundred yellow legs, which, when moving onward, present the appearance of ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent
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Words linked to "Millepede" :   class Diplopoda, arthropod, Myriapoda, Diplopoda, milliped, class Myriapoda


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