myriapod
Americannoun
adjective
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Also myriapodous belonging or pertaining to the myriapods.
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having very numerous legs.
noun
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of myriapod
From the New Latin word Myriapoda, dating back to 1820–30. See myria-, -pod
Example Sentences
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Unlike their relatively benign myriapod cousins, the millipedes, they're meat-eaters.
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2011
The great bulk of his insect diet consists of beetles, grasshoppers, and caterpillars, with a few bugs, wasps, and flies, and an occasional spider and myriapod.
From Our Bird Comrades by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)
In his first article he mistakes a species of the myriapod genus Glomeris for the isopod genus Armadillo.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
To the housewife, want is an insidious myriapod creature that crawls in the dark, mates with its own offspring, breeds all the year round, persists like leprosy.
From The Promised Land by Antin, Mary
The quarries are not without animal life,—in the region of the Jardin des Plantes have been found various insects, species of coleoptera, myriapod and thysanoura, and several small crustacea, all more or less blind.
From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by Walton, William
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