MILLIPEDE

[mil.li.pede] n [L millepeda, a small crawling animal, fr. mille thousand + ped-, pes foot--more at foot] (1601): any of a class (Diplopoda) of myriapod arthropods having usu. a cylindrical segmented body covered with hard integument, two pairs of legs on most apparent segments, and unlike centipedes no poison fangs