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单词 millipede
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millipeden.adj.

Brit. /ˈmɪlᵻpiːd/, U.S. /ˈmɪləˌpid/
Forms: 1600s millipeed, 1600s–1700s millepide, 1600s– millepede, 1600s– millipede, 1700s mellipides, 1700s millipedes, 1700s (1800s in dictionaries) milleped, 1900s– milliped.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mīlipeda.
Etymology: < classical Latin mīlipeda (also mīllipeda ) millipede or similar creature (only attested in Pliny Nat. Hist.) < mīlle thousand (see milli- comb. form) + ped- , pēs foot (see -ped comb. form). Compare Middle French, French †mille-pieds (1562; replaced from 19th cent. by mille-pattes); the Middle French and English words are both first attested in translations of Pliny.With variants in mille- compare post-classical Latin variants in mille- and mile- (4th cent.).
A. n.
1. Any of numerous mostly herbivorous myriapods of the class Diplopoda characterized by an elongated body with many segments, each segment other than those immediately behind the head usually bearing two pairs of legs (in contrast to a single pair on centipedes).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Pauropoda > suborder Diplopoda or Chilognatha > member of (millepede)
scolopender1562
millipede1601
scolopendra1608
thousand-feet1704
thousand-legs1807
chilognathan1835
wireworm1838
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Oniscomorpha > member of > member of genus Glomeris
millipede1601
pill millipede1815
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Pauropoda > suborder Diplopoda or Chilognatha > family Iulidae > genus Iulus > member of
millipede1601
galleyworm1658
iulus1752
wireworm1838
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xx. ii. 37 The Millipeed, which the Greeks call Seps, a long worm with hairie feet.
1676 N. Grew Exper. Luctation i. §21 Millipedes, Egg-shells, or any other testaceous Bodies of the same strength.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Millepeda, a Worm, having a great number of furry Feet; a Palmer.]
1789 'Norfolk Lady' MS Coll. Norfolk Words in Dictionaries (2016) 37 127 Old sow, a mellipides.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvi. 65 These [Chilognathans] are called Millipedes.
1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man vi. 136 Galley-worms or millipedes; wingless, many-jointed, and many-footed crawlers, resembling worms, but more allied to insects.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. ii. 25 The two classes of centipedes and millepedes, which used to be grouped together as Myriapods, are, in fact, not nearly related to one another.
1960 H. S. Zim Guide to Everglades 44 Here also are scorpions, millipedes, tree snails, and land crabs.
1985 Symposia Soc. Exper. Biol. 39 370 A luminescent new xystodesmid milliped from California.
1992 New Scientist 21 Nov. 14/3 Taxonomists have long assumed that the insects (hexapods) and the myriapods (millipedes and centipedes) are the most closely related of the arthropods.
2. A woodlouse. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > miscellaneous types
cheslock1574
millipede1612
hog-louse1702
mole hog-louse1850
tanaid1893
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > family Oniscidae or genus Oniscus
lockchestera1400
sow14..
lugdora1425
louk?a1450
lockchestc1450
cheslip1530
palmer1538
chestworm1544
Robin Goodfellow's louse1552
monk's peason1558
cheslock1574
porcelet1578
swine louse1579
hog-louse1580
multiped1601
kitchen-bob1610
woodlouse1611
loop1612
millipede1612
timber-sow1626
cheeselog1657
sow-louse1658
thurse-louse1658
onisc1661
monkey pea1682
slater1684
slatter1739
sow-bug1750
Oniscus1806
pig louse1819
hob-thrush1828
land-slater1863
pig's louse1888
wall-louse1899
oniscoid1909
chucky-pig1946
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > family Armadillilidae or genus Armadillo > member of
cheslip1530
millipede1612
pill millipede1815
hog-beetlec1830
pill bug1843
pill woodlouse1863
pill worm1882
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xii. 13 Vse oyle, wherin sowes, called in Latin Millipede be boyled.]
1612 P. Pomarius Enchiridion Med. (new ed.) ii. 58 Your Millepedes, which I take to be loopes or Hog-lice.
1651 J. French Art Distillation iv. 101 Take..of Millepides (i) Wood~lice one hundred.
1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 428 Millepedes and Earwigs.
1758 Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 406 This body seems to be a Milleped, or Wood-louse.
1883 Good Words Dec. 764/1 The millepedes..are plentiful under the stones and flower-pots.
1899 W. T. Ferne Animal Simples 236 Hoglouse, or Pill Millipede... This Hoglouse, or Millipede, was the primitive medicinal pill.
3. A centipede. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Chilopoda > member of
scolopender1562
centipede1601
scolopendra1608
forty-foot1677
millipede1684
forty legs1697
thousand-feet1704
thousand-legs1807
Meg-many-feet1813
chilopodan1835
chilopod1837
twenty-foot worm-
1684 tr. A. O. Exquemelin Bucaniers Amer. i. 45 This Island also is not free from the Insect called in Latin Millepes, and in Greek Scolopendria, or Many-feet. [margin] = Millepedes.
1701 Philos. Trans. 1700–1 (Royal Soc.) 22 870 These Stings..very much resemble the Stings of Scorpions, or Indian millepedes.
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xix. 379 It is not more prejudicial than the Sting of the Millepedes.
1756 A. Russell Nat. Hist. Aleppo 264 The third kind of Mal, which they call the pinch of a millepedes, begins like the two others, but [etc.].
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. v. ii. 265 The Scolopendra are insects belonging to the order Myriopoda and to the family Chilopoda. They are commonly termed Millipedes.
4. figurative. rare.
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1787 New Haven Gaz. & Connecticut Mag. 15 Mar. in D. H. Bond & W. R. McLeod Newslett. to Newspapers (1977) iv. 253 Thou Millepede of Office, hear my lays.
1992 M. Turner Trespasses 5 The view falls below the horizon. The industrial millipede Sinks and doesn't stir.
B. adj.
Of an insect: having many feet. Cf. insect n. 1. Obsolete. rare.
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1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 562 Many frightful hydra-headed and millipede insects.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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