millipede
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈmɪləpid/
millipede (plural millipedes)
- Any of many elongated arthropods, of the class Diplopoda, with cylindrical bodies that have two pairs of legs for each one of their 20 to 100 or more body segments.[From 1600]
- 1993, Rod Preston-Mafham, The Encyclopedia of Land Invertebrate Behaviour, page 14 ↗,
- With one or two exceptions, male millipedes make direct contact with the female and transfer sperm via a pair of modified front legs (gonopods) which have been charged with semen from the genitalia situated towards the rear of the body.
- 2005, Thomas Eisner, For Love of Insects, page 276 ↗,
- When alive, millipedes maintain tension in these[intersegmental] muscles and are therefore difficult to straighten out when coiled.
- 2006, Boris A. Byzov, 4: Intestinal Microbiota of Millipedes, Helmut König, Ajit Varma (editors), Intestinal Microorganisms of Termites and Other Invertebrates, page 89 ↗,
- Soil millipedes (Diplopoda) possess a specific gut microbiota that differs from microbial communities in soil and leaf litter.
- 1993, Rod Preston-Mafham, The Encyclopedia of Land Invertebrate Behaviour, page 14 ↗,
- French: diplopode, mille-pattes
- German: Tausendfüßler
- Italian: millepiedi
- Portuguese: diplópode, milípede, piolho-de-cobra (Brazil), embuá (Brazil)
- Russian: многоно́жка
- Spanish: milpiés, congorocho (Venezuela)
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