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Definition of millipede in English: millipede(also millepede) noun ˈmɪlɪpiːdˈmɪləˌpid A myriapod invertebrate with an elongated body composed of many segments, most of which bear two pairs of legs. Most kinds are herbivorous and shun light, living in the soil or under stones and logs. 千足虫 Class Diplopoda: several orders Example sentencesExamples - Insects mined and bored every bit of wood and leaf, while centipedes and millipedes crawled all over.
- In areas where acid rain is most severe, the supplementary calcium-rich foods that female songbirds depend on - snail shells, isopods such as pill bugs, millipedes, and earthworms - may be in short supply.
- Plant material accumulated on the pond bottom, creating anoxic conditions that favored the preservation of terrestrial arthropods such as the millipedes and arachnids.
- They include such things as spiders, leeches, millipedes, pill bugs, flatworms, mites, beetles, and water dwellers such as water scorpions and nematode worms.
- They are predators on spiders, mites, millipedes, and other insects.
- The large collection includes earthworms, slugs, snails, beetles, earwigs, ants, moths, crickets, spiders, millipedes and centipedes.
- Terrestrial animal life was limited to unwinged insects like millipedes and scorpions.
- Some arthropods, like the centipedes, millipedes, and insects, have legs with a single branch (uniramous appendages).
- These tireless toilers of the soil include such creatures as the earthworms, woodlice and millipedes.
- In fact, when the ground is still warm from the fires, ants, wood beetles, millipedes, and centipedes are busy.
- The rubbish also attracted beetles, flies, centipedes and millipedes.
- The arthropodes, like centipedes, beetles, millipedes and worms, bring in the finishing touches to complete the composting.
- Pulmonate snails, millipedes, scorpions, spiders and mites were certainly present, but are not known from fossils.
- I received a sample of millipedes and crane fly larvae from a seedling corn field.
- Thousands of legs, like a giant millipede crawling across the floodplain, kick up puffs of blush-colored dust.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin millepeda 'woodlouse', from mille 'thousand' + pes, ped- 'foot'. Definition of millipede in US English: millipede(also millepede) nounˈmiləˌpēdˈmɪləˌpid A myriapod invertebrate with an elongated body composed of many segments, most of which bear two pairs of legs. Most kinds are herbivorous and shun light, living in the soil or under stones and logs. 千足虫 Class Diplopoda: several orders Example sentencesExamples - Plant material accumulated on the pond bottom, creating anoxic conditions that favored the preservation of terrestrial arthropods such as the millipedes and arachnids.
- Insects mined and bored every bit of wood and leaf, while centipedes and millipedes crawled all over.
- In fact, when the ground is still warm from the fires, ants, wood beetles, millipedes, and centipedes are busy.
- The rubbish also attracted beetles, flies, centipedes and millipedes.
- They are predators on spiders, mites, millipedes, and other insects.
- In areas where acid rain is most severe, the supplementary calcium-rich foods that female songbirds depend on - snail shells, isopods such as pill bugs, millipedes, and earthworms - may be in short supply.
- These tireless toilers of the soil include such creatures as the earthworms, woodlice and millipedes.
- They include such things as spiders, leeches, millipedes, pill bugs, flatworms, mites, beetles, and water dwellers such as water scorpions and nematode worms.
- Some arthropods, like the centipedes, millipedes, and insects, have legs with a single branch (uniramous appendages).
- I received a sample of millipedes and crane fly larvae from a seedling corn field.
- The large collection includes earthworms, slugs, snails, beetles, earwigs, ants, moths, crickets, spiders, millipedes and centipedes.
- The arthropodes, like centipedes, beetles, millipedes and worms, bring in the finishing touches to complete the composting.
- Pulmonate snails, millipedes, scorpions, spiders and mites were certainly present, but are not known from fossils.
- Thousands of legs, like a giant millipede crawling across the floodplain, kick up puffs of blush-colored dust.
- Terrestrial animal life was limited to unwinged insects like millipedes and scorpions.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin millepeda ‘woodlouse’, from mille ‘thousand’ + pes, ped- ‘foot’. |