Look up: millipede

1. millipede
   [n] - any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs
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2. millipede
   a prototype of a revolutionary -and purely mechanical- data storage device that stores one bit by melting a nanoscale hole into a polymer surface Category: Technical and industry in general
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3. millipede
   A venomous nonpredaceous arthropod of the order Diplopoda, characterised by two pairs of legs per leg-bearing segment. The venom is purely defensive, oozed or squirted from pores along the body, producing irritation to the skin or severe inflammation if it reaches the eyes. ... Origin: milli-+ L. Pes, pedis, foot ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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4. millipede
   millepede noun any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs
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5. millipede
   any member of the arthropod class Diplopoda, distributed worldwide and commonly grouped with several other classes as myriapods. The approximately ... [5 related articles]
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6. millipede
   millipede (mil'upēd") , elongated arthropod having many body segments and pairs of legs. Millipedes, sometimes termed thousand-legged worms, have two pairs of legs on each body segment except the first few and the last. Females in one Californian species, Illacme plenipes, typically ha...
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7. Millipede
   A millipede is a myriapod with numerous legs placed one each of the segments in double pairs. They differ from centipedes in being vegetarian in habit, and in being harmless being devoid of poison claws. Externally they have cylindrical rather than rounded bodies.
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8. millipede
   Type: Term Pronunciation: mil′i-pēd Definitions: 1. A venomous nonpredaceous arthropod of the order Diplopoda, characterized by two pairs of legs per leg-bearing segment. The venom is purely defensive, oozed or squirted from pores along the body, producing irritation to the skin or severe inflammation if it reaches the eyes. ...
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9. millipede
   Any of a group of arthropods that have segmented bodies, each segment usually bearing two pairs of legs, and a pair of short clubbed antennae on the distinct head. Most millipedes are no more than 2.5 cm/1 in long; a few in the tropics are 30 cm/12 in. (Class Diplopoda.) Millipedes live in damp, dark places, feeding mainly on rotting ve...
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10. Millipede
    `Millipedes` are arthropods that have two pairs of legs per segment (except for the first segment behind the head which does not have any appendages at all, and the next few which only have one pair of legs). Each segment that has two pairs of legs is a result of two single segments fused together a...
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11. Millipede
    (arcade game) `Millipede` is a 1982 arcade game by Atari, Inc. and is the sequel to the arcade hit, Centipede. The objective of the game is to score as many points as possible by destroying all segments of the millipede as it moves toward the bottom of the screen, as well as des...
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