/mil"euh peed'/ , n.
any terrestrial arthropod of the class Diplopoda, having a cylindrical body composed of 20 to more than 100 segments, each with two pairs of legs.
Also, millepede .
[ 1595-1605; milipeda (Pliny), equiv. to mili- MILLI- + -peda, deriv. of pes, s. ped- FOOT ]