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

  • 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.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • 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

  • "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

  • [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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