| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | mil·li·pede |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  m l  -p d |
| VARIANT FORMS: | or mil·le·pede |
| NOUN: | Any of various crawling herbivorous myriapods of the class Diplopoda, found worldwide and having a cylindrical segmented body with two pairs of legs attached to all segments except for the first four in the thoracic region. Also called diplopod. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin m lipeda, a kind of insect : mlle, thousand; see gheslo- in Appendix I + ps, ped-, foot; see ped- in Appendix I.
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