Any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs [syn: millipede, millepede, milliped]
Milleped \Mil"le*ped\ (m[i^]l"l[-e]*p[e^]d[i^]), n. [L.
millepeda; mille a thousand + pes, pedis, foot: cf. F.
mille-pieds.] (Zool.)
A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the
galleyworm. [Written also millipede and milliped.]
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