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Definition of Myriapods
1. myriapod [n] - See also: myriapod
Lexicographical Neighbors of Myriapods
Literary usage of Myriapods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"Second, that at this early period, in marked contrast to what we find in other
groups of articulated animals, the divergency of structure among myriapods ..."
2. The Canadian Record of Science by Natural History Society of Montreal (1896)
"myriapods differ strikingly from the latter in their long worm-like bodies ...
So distinct are the myriapods in these and other respects from the true ..."
3. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1875)
"The myriapods, or Centipedes, were of the sume tribe with the modern lulus, or
the cylindrical myriapods. having two pairs of feet to each segment of the ..."
4. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"CHAPTER XVI SLIME SLUGS, myriapods AND INSECTS Slime Slugs.—The slime slugs,
composing the small class Onychophora of the great branch Arthropoda, ..."
5. Elements of Zoölogy: A Textbook by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"THE ORDER OF MYRIAPODA OB myriapods. THE name Myriapoda comes from two Greek ...
The number of segments in the myriapods varies in the different kinds from ..."
6. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1877)
"Plateau finds that, as in insects, the digestive liquid of myriapods ... nor in
the carnivorous myriapods clearly dissolve albuminoid matters. ..."
7. Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians by Junius Henderson, John Peabody Harrington (1914)
"CRUSTACEANS, myriapods, AND ARACHNIDS fse'lca.', 'spruce brownness' (tee', Douglas
spruce; kfr, buff-brown color, said to be so called because they are ..."
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