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‖ iulus Zool.|aɪˈjuːləs|
Formerly (and still with some) julus.
[L. iūlus, a. Gr. ἴουλος down, a catkin, the animal described in 2.]
†1. A catkin. Obs.
1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. iv. 73 Having a leaf like a flag, bearing a Julus hard and close. 1757A. Cooper Distiller iii. lv. (1760) 248 The Male Shrubs produce in April or May a small kind of Juli with Apices on them.
2. A genus of animals of the class Myriapoda, order Chilognatha (Diplopoda); a millepede.
1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1047 Unless they have many feet, they cannot be numbred or named amongst the Juli. Juli are as I said, short Scolopenders, that for the number of their feet, exceed..all other Insects. 1752Sir J. Hill Hist. Anim. 17 Gallyworm, the brown Julus, with a hundred legs on each side. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. II. xvi. 75 The six original or natural legs of the Iulus are its first organs of locomotion. 1841–71T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 293 The eggs..are deposited in the earth or vegetable mould, in which the Julus is usually met with. 1847Carpenter Zool. §824 The body of the Iulus (of which one of the commonest species is known as the Gally-worm) is long and cylindrical; its number of segments is between 40 and 50; and many of these bear two pairs of..legs. |