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millepede Zool.|ˈmɪlɪpiːd|
Also 7 millipeed, 7–8 millepide, 8, 9 (in Dicts.) milleped, 8–9 millipede.
[ad. L. millepeda woodlouse, f. mille thousand + ped-, pēs foot. Cf. F. mille-pieds.]
1. Any one of the chilognathan myriapods (esp. of the British genera Iulus and Glomeris), in which the numerous legs are usually placed on each of the segments in double pairs, except the three or four pairs immediately behind the head.
1601Holland Pliny xx. ii. 37 The Millipeed, which the Greeks call Seps, a long Worme with hairie feet. [1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Millepeda, a Worm, having a great number of furry Feet; a Palmer.] 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. II. xvi. 65 These [Chilognathans] are called Millipedes. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vii. 391 In the Millipedes, the sternal region is rudimentary.
2. Any one of several terrestrial isopod crustaceans, esp. the common woodlouse, Oniscus asellus; the armadillo, Armadillo vulgaris; and the slater, Porcellio scaber.
1651French Distill. iv. 101 Take..of Millepides (i) Wood⁓lice one hundred. 1667E. King in Phil. Trans. II. 428 Millepedes and Earwigs. 1757Parsons ibid. L. 406 This body seems to be a Milleped, or Wood-louse. 1883Wood in Gd. Words Dec. 764/1 The millepedes..are plentiful under the stones and flower-pots. 1890Syd. Soc. Lex., Millepede,..the Oniscus armadillo.
3. = centipede.
1705tr. Bosman's Guinea 379 It is not more prejudicial than the Sting of the Millepedes. 1756A. Russell Nat. Hist. Aleppo 264 The third kind of Mal, which they call the pinch of a millepedes, begins like the two others, but [etc.]. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. v. ii. 265 The Scolopendra are..commonly termed Millipedes.
4. attrib. or as adj.: Thousand-footed.
1834Fraser's Mag. X. 562 Many frightful hydra-headed and millipede insects. |
