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noun mil·li·pede \ˈmi-lÉ™-ËŒpÄ“d\

: a small creature that is like an insect and that has a long, thin body with many legs

Full Definition of MILLIPEDE

:  any of a class (Diplopoda) of myriapod arthropods having usually a cylindrical segmented body covered with hard integument, two pairs of legs on most apparent segments, and unlike centipedes no poison fangs

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Origin of MILLIPEDE

Latin millepeda, a small crawling animal, from mille thousand + ped-, pes foot — more at foot

First Known Use: 1601

Rhymes with MILLIPEDE

aniseed, antecede, beating reed, beggarweed, bitterweed, bottle-feed, bugleweed, butterweed, carpetweed, centipede, chicken feed, copyread, cottonseed, cottonweed, crazyweed, double reed, Ganymede, giant reed, go to seed, interbreed, intercede, interplead, jewelweed, jimsonweed, locoweed, Nicene Creed, overfeed, pedigreed, pickerelweed, poppy seed, Port Said, pumpkinseed, quitclaim deed, retrocede, rosinweed, Runnymede, silverweed, supersede, thimbleweed, title deed, tumbleweed, underfeed, up to speed, waterweed

millipede

noun mil·li·pede \ˈmil-É™-ËŒpÄ“d\   (Medical Dictionary)

Medical Definition of MILLIPEDE

:  any of a class (Diplopoda) of arthropods having usually a cylindrical segmented body, two pairs of legs on most segments, and including some forms that secrete toxic substances causing skin irritation but that unlike centipedes possess no poison fangs