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How to use millipede in a sentence

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Millipede means any of many elongated arthropods, of the class Diplopoda, with cylindrical bodies that have two pairs of legs for each one of their 20 to 100 or more body segments. Example: “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.”

Examples of millipede by meaning

nounAny of many elongated arthropods, of the class Diplopoda, with cylindrical bodies that have two pairs of legs for each...

  • 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.1993, Rod Preston-Mafham, The Encyclopedia of Land Invertebrate Behaviour, page 14
  • Soil millipedes (Diplopoda) possess a specific gut microbiota that differs from microbial communities in soil and leaf litter.2006, Boris A. Byzov, “4: Intestinal Microbiota of Millipedes”, in Helmut König, Ajit Varma, editors, Intestinal Microorganisms of Termites...
  • 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.2020 May 19, Allen Kim, “A parasite that feeds off of the reproductive organs of millipedes is named after Twitter, where it was found”, in...

More sentences with millipede

  • Snakes, worms, certain fish, and other limbless creatures are all apodous, while visibly similar creatures (such as millipedes or centipedes) use a different type of movement called a metachronal gait.From the entry apodous
  • I fought my way back okay, but this time my path was blocked by this giant millipede.2019, Gordon Korman, Level 13: A Slacker Novel, Scholastic Press, page 114. From the entry katydid
  • Millipede, the sequel to Centipede, takes the Freudian original and ramps up the challenge.2000 October, Steve Bauman, “Atari Arcade Hits Volume II”, in Steve Bauman, editor, Computer Games Magazine, number 119, Richmond, Vt.…. From the entry sometimes a cigar is a cigar
  • Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment.1993, Gordon M. Nishida, JoAnn M. Tenorio, What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'i's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin, page 29. From the entry centipede
  • The larvae are elongated and in many cases much like the more flattened millipedes or galleyworms in appearance.1936, Rennie Wilbur Doane, Edwin Cooper Van Dyke, Willard Joseph Chamberlin, Forest Insects, page 212. From the entry galleyworm
  • The existence of millipedes, centipedes, insects, and spiders along-side the first tetrapods sustained a robust ecosystem in which most animals were predators or scavengers.2008, Thom Holmes, March Onto Land: The Silurian Period to the Middle Triassic Epoch, page 58. From the entry centipede
  • The ground-plan of the Chilognatha thus is a reconstruction of the species from which all chilognathan millipedes have descended— the ancestral chilognathan.1990, Alessandro Minelli, Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Myriapodology, →ISBN. From the entry ground-plan

Meaning of millipede

  1. noun Any of many elongated arthropods, of the class Diplopoda, with cylindrical bodies that have two pairs of legs for each one of their 20 to 100 or more body segments.

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Questions about millipede in a sentence

How do you use millipede in a sentence?
Millipede is used as a noun. For example: “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.”
What is a short sentence with millipede?
“Millipede, the sequel to Centipede, takes the Freudian original and ramps up the challenge.”
What does millipede mean?
Millipede means any of many elongated arthropods, of the class Diplopoda, with cylindrical bodies that have two pairs of legs for each one of their 20 to 100 or more body segments.

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