Myriapoda

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Noun

Myriapoda - arthropods having the body composed of numerous double somites each with two pairs of legs: millipedesclass Diplopoda, class Myriapoda, DiplopodaArthropoda, phylum Arthropoda - jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedesmillepede, milliped, millipede - any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legsclass - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders

Myriapoda

[‚mir·ē′äp·ə·də] (invertebrate zoology) Informal designation for those mandibulate arthropods having two body tagmata, one pair of antennae, and more than three pairs of adult ambulatory appendages.

Myriapoda

the general name for the following four classes of terrestrial arthropods: Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Symphyla, and Pauropoda. Formerly the four classes were considered to be a single class. The bodies of myriapods consist of a head and a more or less long segmented trunk. There is one pair of antennae, and there are legs on all (or almost all) trunk segments. These arthropods comprise about 11,000 species; in the USSR there are approximately 1,000 species. Myriapods live in soil, on the forest floor, and in rotten wood. They feed on decaying plant remains (Diplopoda and Symphyla) and on fungous mycelium (Pauropoda); some are predators (Chilopoda).

Myriapoda

Related to Myriapoda: Hexapoda, Pauropoda, Symphyla

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Synonyms for Myriapoda

noun arthropods having the body composed of numerous double somites each with two pairs of legs: millipedes

Synonyms

class Diplopoda
class Myriapoda
Diplopoda

Related Words

Arthropoda
phylum Arthropoda
millepede
milliped
millipede
class