Definition of Chilopods

1. Noun. (plural of chilopod) ¹

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Definition of Chilopods

1. chilopod [n] - See also: chilopod

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chilopods

chillum
chillums
chillun
chilly
chilly bin
chilly bins
chilo-
chilognath
chilognaths
chilomastigiasis
chilomastosis
chilometre
chiloplasty
chilopod
chilopodiasis
chilopods (current term)
chilorrhaphy
chilostomatoplasty
chilostomatous
chilotomy
chiltepin
chiltepins
chiluite
chilver
chilvers
chimaera
chimaeral
chimaeras
chimaeric
chimaerism

Literary usage of Chilopods

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1903)
"Its nature as the probable ancestor of the Chilopoda is, notwithstanding the immense gap between it and chilopods and insects, such as to still compel us to ..."

2. The Embryology of Limulus: Pt.i -pt.ii by John Sterling Kingsley (1892)
"In both Hexapods and chilopods the spermatozoa are motile. ... In the chilopods the embryo escapes from the egg with numerous ambulatory appendages, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Similar glands are wanting in most chilopods, ... In the chilopods the ducts open at the hinder extremity of the body ; in the ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"chilopods differing principally from the ... chilopods with twenty-one tergal ... chilopods with a series of median ..."

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