Definition of Millepeds

1. milleped [n] - See also: milleped

Lexicographical Neighbors of Millepeds

millennialism
millennialisms
millennialist
millennialists
millennials
millennian
millennist
millennists
millennium
millennium bug
millenniumism
millenniums
milleped
millepede
millepedes
millepeds (current term)
millepora
millepore
millepores
milleporite
milleporites
miller
miller's-thumb
miller's asthma
miller's thumb
miller's thumbs
miller fisher syndrome
miller moth
milleress
milleresses

Literary usage of Millepeds

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

1. First Steps in Scientific Knowledge: Complete in Seven Parts by Paul Bert (1887)
"The millepeds and CENTIPEDES, so called with exaggeration, have at least twenty pairs of feet (Fig. 189). In their case the head is distinct from the rest ..."

2. Primer of Scientific Knowledge: By Paul Bert ; Translated and Adapted for by Paul Bert (1888)
"millepeds have a great number of feet, and numerous rings. The Crustaceans have at least ten feet, and a shell on the back. The crustaceans are aquatic, ..."

3. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Alpheus Spring Packard (1873)
"The centipedo and millepeds (Fig. 55, Julus multistriatus) live in damp situations under stones, sticks, leaves, F¡ K etc. They should be preserved in ..."

4. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1890)
"for example, spiders, millepeds and earth-worms—as there are between cows and ... Insects (Insecta), Thousand-legged worms or millepeds (Myriapoda), ..."

5. Bulletin by Bureau of Biological Survey, United States (1911)
"But ticks and millepeds must be taken from the ground or some other surface. ... Spiders were found in 76 stomachs, millepeds in 7, ..."

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