millipede
pronunciation
How to pronounce millipede in British English:
UK [ˈmɪlɪpiːd]
How to pronounce millipede in American English:
US [ˈmɪlɪpiːd]
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- Noun:
- any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs
Word Origin
- millipede (n.)
- also millepede, c. 1600, from Latin millepeda "wood louse," a type of crawling insect, from mille "thousand" (see million) + pes (genitive pedis) "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)). Probably a loan-translation of Greek chiliopous.
Example
- 1. The portuguese millipede 's eyes become larger and more complex with age .
- 2. Australia has hundreds of native millipede species , but not much is known about them .
- 3. Exhibiting its main defense mechanism , a millipede curls into a tight spiral .
- 4. We can use these changes to determine approximately how old a particular millipede is .
- 5. On the way down in blazing sunlight , I came across a large black millipede and asked clarke if it would kill me if it bit me .