noun
or mil·le·pede ˈmiləˌpēd ; also mil·li·ped -ped
( -s )
Etymology: Latin millepeda, a small crawling animal, perhaps the wood louse, from mille thousand + -peda (from ped-, pes foot) — more at mile , foot
: any of numerous myriopods constituting the class Diplopoda having usually a more or less cylindrical body covered with hard integument and composed of numerous segments with two pairs of legs on most apparent segments, feeding largely on vegetable matter, and having no poison fangs — compare centipede