pəˈripəd.əs noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek peripatos act of walking, place for walking, from peri- + patos path — more at find
1. capitalized : a genus (the type of the family Peripatidae) comprising chiefly neotropical onychophorans or in former classifications made coextensive with the class Onychophora — compare peripatopsis
2. -es : any arthropod of the genus Peripatus ; broadly : onychophoran