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单词 myriapod
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Definition of myriapod in English:

myriapod

noun ˈmɪrɪəpɒdˈmɪriəˌpɑd
Zoology
  • An arthropod of a group that includes the centipedes, millipedes, and related animals. Myriapods have elongated bodies with numerous leg-bearing segments.

    Classes Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, and Symphyla; formerly placed together in the class Myriapoda

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These tiny myriapods generally resemble very small centipedes.
    • More problematic are the relationships of the four major groups, hexapods (including insects), crustaceans, myriapods (including centipedes and millipedes), and chelicerates (including spiders).
    • This implies that water-to-land transition occurred at least three times (hexapods, myriapods, arachnids) during the evolution of the Arthropoda.
    • Living among these early land plants were a diverse selection of arthropods, including spiders, mites, myriapods and collembolids.
    • Like myriapods they have many trunk segments, but there the resemblance ends.

Origin

Early 19th century: from modern Latin Myriapoda, from Greek murias (see myriad) + pous, pod- 'foot'.

 
 

Definition of myriapod in US English:

myriapod

nounˈmɪriəˌpɑdˈmirēəˌpäd
Zoology
  • An arthropod of a group that includes the centipedes, millipedes, and related animals. Myriapods have elongated bodies with numerous leg-bearing segments.

    Classes Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, and Symphyla; formerly placed together in the class Myriapoda

    Example sentencesExamples
    • More problematic are the relationships of the four major groups, hexapods (including insects), crustaceans, myriapods (including centipedes and millipedes), and chelicerates (including spiders).
    • These tiny myriapods generally resemble very small centipedes.
    • This implies that water-to-land transition occurred at least three times (hexapods, myriapods, arachnids) during the evolution of the Arthropoda.
    • Like myriapods they have many trunk segments, but there the resemblance ends.
    • Living among these early land plants were a diverse selection of arthropods, including spiders, mites, myriapods and collembolids.
adjectiveˈmɪriəˌpɑdˈmirēəˌpäd
also myriapodous
  • Of or belonging to the myriapods.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This raises the question of how important absolute position is in determining homologies between structures in homonomously segmented myriapodous arthropods.
    • This is the cast of a trackway, most likely made by a large myriapodous arthropod, such as a millipede or arthropleurid.
    • Numerous arthropod trackways (as on the right) were identified and described and attributed using computer modelling to the myriapodous eoarthropleurids and kampecarids.

Origin

Early 19th century: from modern Latin Myriapoda, from Greek murias (see myriad) + pous, pod- ‘foot’.

 
 
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