millipede
/ˈmɪləpid/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The ſaid leaves alſo ſtamped with honey and brought to the forme of a cataplaſme, cure the bloudie-falls or night-blains: but tempered with wine, they heale the bitings of dogs, as alſo of the Millepeed, which the Greeks call Seps, a long worm with hairie feet, doing much harme to cattaile eſpecially; for looke where it biteth, the place preſently ſwelleth and putrifieth."
- "With one or two exceptions, male millipedes make direct contact with the female and transfer sperm via a pair of modified front legs (gonopods) which have been charged with semen from the genitalia situated towards the rear of the body."
- "When alive, millipedes maintain tension in these^([intersegmental]) muscles and are therefore difficult to straighten out when coiled."
- "Soil millipedes (Diplopoda) possess a specific gut microbiota that differs from microbial communities in soil and leaf litter."
- "Working with her colleague Henrik Enghoff, the two discovered several specimens of the same fungus on North American millipedes right there in the Natural History Museum’s collection."
- "An entomologist named a new species of millipede Nannaria swiftae after pop star Taylor Swift."
Etymology
From Latin mīllipeda (“wood louse”), from mīlle (“thousand”) + pēs, pedis (“foot”), equivalent to milli- + -pede.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmɪləpid/