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multipede

multipede adjective: having many feet.

Adjective

multipede (not comparable)

  1. Having many feet.

Noun

multipede (plural multipedes)

  1. A creature with many feet, especially a centipede, millepede or similar creature.
    • XLVI. THE Ambua, ſo the Natives of Brazil call the Millepedes and the Centipedes Serpents. […]
      IN theſe Multipedes, the Mechaniſm of the Body is very curious; […]1742, Charles Owen, An essay towards a natural history of serpents, page 107
    • In the course of two weeks there developed in all the aquaria minute crustaceans (shell insects, flea lobsters, water multipedes, infusoria, green algae), a felted mass […]1804, W. Kochs, Experiments with Artificial Propagation of Minute Crustaceans, published in the Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, volume 14, page 307
  2. A branching structure with many separate termini.
    • The stability of the mesophases for the polypedes and multipedes is reported in Table 17.2006, Bertrand Donnio, Akira Harada, Akihito Hashidzume, editors, Supramolecular polymers, polymeric betains, oligomers
    • As noted in Section 15.1, the design of multipedes allows the incorporation of functional moieties into self-assembling and/or self-organizing states of matter.2011, Takashi Nakanishi, Supramolecular Soft Matter: Applications in Materials and Organic Electronics, page 314

Forms of multipede

Adjective
alternative formmultiped
Noun
pluralmultipedes

Origin of multipede

From Latin multipeda, multipēs; equivalent to multi- + -pede.

Questions about multipede

What does multipede mean?
Multipede means having many feet.
What part of speech is multipede?
Multipede can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near multipede in the dictionary

  1. multipeak
  2. multipeaked
  3. multipeakon
  4. multiped
  5. multipedal
  6. multipede
  7. multipedes
  8. multipedous
  9. multipeds
  10. multipenised
  11. multipennate

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