Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Double-footed: an epithet applied to the chilognathous Myriapoda or Diplopoda, which have two pairs of limbs on each segment of the body.
- noun One of the Diplopoda or Chilognatha.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Diplopoda.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
animal of theclass Diplopoda : amillipede .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Diplopoda, class name : diplo– + -poda, -pod.]
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fbharjo commented on the word diplopod
a thousand feet
July 30, 2009