Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Double-footed: an epithet applied to the chilognathous Myriapoda or Diplopoda, which have two pairs of limbs on each segment of the body.
  • noun One of the Diplopoda or Chilognatha.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) One of the Diplopoda.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any animal of the class Diplopoda: a millipede.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin Diplopoda, class name : diplo– + -poda, -pod.]

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    July 30, 2009