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Millipede

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Noun

1. millepede, milliped, millipede

any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Millipede

see synonyms of millipede
noun
any terrestrial herbivorous arthropod of the class Diplopoda, having a cylindrical body made up of many segments, each of which bears two pairs of walking legs
See also myriapod

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Millipede

see synonyms of millipede
noun
any of a class (Diplopoda) of many-legged arthropods with an elongated body having two pairs of walking legs on each segment

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Millipede

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n.
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. Also called diplopod.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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