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Definition of Millepedes
1. millepede [n] - See also: millepede
Lexicographical Neighbors of Millepedes
Literary usage of Millepedes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophy of Natural History: With an Introduction and Various by William Smellie, John Ware (1851)
"Among them are found the millepedes, whose body is divided into a great number
of rings, each of which serves for the attachment of one or more pairs of ..."
2. A Residence at Sierra Leone: Described from a Journal Kept on the Spot, and by Elizabeth Melville, Elizabeth Colville Colville of Culross, Caroline Sheridan Norton (1849)
"... Palm-birds — Whydah Finch — Rice Buntings — Butterflies — millepedes — Spiders —
Description of a Tornado — Continued heavy Rain — Bush Novelties. ..."
3. The Out-door World: Or, Young Collector's Handbook by William S. Furneaux (1893)
"... AND millepedes IT is impossible for a naturalist to proceed with anv kind of
field work without being continually brought into contact with the ..."
4. Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica: Comprising the Characteristic by William Boericke, Oscar E. Boericke (1906)
"... ONISCUS ASELLUS—millepedes. (Wood-Louse.) Has distinct diuretic properties;
hence its use in dropsies. Asthmatic conditions, with bronchial catarrh . ..."
5. The Potato in Field and Garden by Walter James Malden (1895)
"Wireworms and millepedes. Next in importance, as causing injury to the growing
tubers, are the several kinds of wireworms and ..."
6. The Sportsman's Dictionary; Or, The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Hunt (1785)
"... and afterwards the following medicine : Take of fait of tartar, two ounces ;
live millepedes and Mings of ..."
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