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n. - General term for any terrestrial arthropod having an elongated body composed of many similar segments: e.g. centipedes and millipedes.

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  • A two-meter-long myriapod was crawling slowly past her feet.
  • No myriapod can trace more than a branch or two of the Path, Quath'jutt'kkal'thon.
  • A small myriapod, about ten centimeters long, noticed Big Ugly Mama and decided to eat her.
  • Petra Sierwald, the Field Museum's friendly myriapod and
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