Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having many feet; polypous.
- noun A many-footed or polypous animal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An insect having many feet, as a myriapod.
- adjective Having many feet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having many
feet . - noun Any
organism that has many feet.
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Examples
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The movements of animals, quadruped and multiped, are crosswise, or in diagonals, and their equilibrium in standing posture is maintained crosswise; and it is always the limb on the right-hand side that is the first to move.
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When they teach that creation's object and end was man, your theologians and your philosophers reason like the multiped of Versailles or the
The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884
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"Did I extend a general invitation to every biped, multiped, and noped that they could encroach on my privacy whenever the whim might strike their atrophied brainpans?
Lost And Found Foster, Alan Dean 2004
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[Note: The formula for weighting was 40, 15, 25, 10 - the error of each of the four predicted numbers were multiped by those weightings, then the total was summed and averaged.
Climate Progress 2009
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