(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:11:33

Mil"le*ped (?), n. [L. millepeda; mille a thousand + pes, pedis, foot: cf. F. mille-pieds.] Zool.

A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm.

[Written also millipede and milliped and millepede.]

 

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