multipede

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English

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Etymology

From Latin multipeda, multipēs;[1] equivalent to multi- +‎ -pede.

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.
    • 1742, Charles Owen, An essay towards a natural history of serpents, page 107:
      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; […]
    • 1804, W. Kochs, Experiments with Artificial Propagation of Minute Crustaceans, published in the Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, volume 14, page 307:
      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
    • 1832, William Percivall, The anatomy of the horse, embracing the structure of the foot, page 418:
      Animals exhibit differences in the number of their feet, and accordingly have been distributed into classes, consisting of bipeds, quadrupeds, and multipedes.
  2. A branching structure with many separate termini.
    • 2006, Bertrand Donnio, Akira Harada, Akihito Hashidzume, editors, Supramolecular polymers, polymeric betains, oligomers:
      The stability of the mesophases for the polypedes and multipedes is reported in Table 17.
    • 2011, Takashi Nakanishi, Supramolecular Soft Matter: Applications in Materials and Organic Electronics, page 314:
      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.

References

  1. ^ “multiped, n. and adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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