n.
Pronunciation: ' mi-l ə - ˌ p ē d
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin millepeda, a small crawling animal, from mille thousand + ped-, pes foot ― more at FOOT
Date: 1601
: any of a class (Diplopoda) of myriapod arthropods having usually a cylindrical segmented body covered with hard integument, two pairs of legs on most apparent segments, and unlike centipedes no poison fangs