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Definition of Chilopods
1. chilopod [n] - See also: chilopod
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chilopods
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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