Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
arthropleure . - A genus of extinct jsopod crustaceans, or sow-bugs, from the Carboniferous formation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere.
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Examples
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Last night there was a very weird combination of those two games with pre-dinosaur animals like arthropleura.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008
chained_bear commented on the word arthropleura
reesetee alert: worse than it sounds.
August 29, 2008
reesetee commented on the word arthropleura
How can it be worse? This thing was an eight-foot millipede!
Actually, it does sound like some bizarre autoimmune-lung disease....
August 29, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word arthropleura
Well, I thought the word was kind of pretty until I found out what it meant. *shivers*
August 29, 2008
reesetee commented on the word arthropleura
*looking again*
Hmm. I guess it is. Except that "pleura" part always reminds me of pneumonia.
August 29, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word arthropleura
Or pleurisy. I agree it sounds like a lung disease. Frankly I'd rather have it mean a lung disease than an eight-foot millipede. Eugh!
*shivers again*
August 29, 2008
reesetee commented on the word arthropleura
*catching chained_bear's contagious shivering*
August 29, 2008