Multipede
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Multipede is an adjective meaning Having many feet.
Meaning
Having many feet.
More Meanings
- A creature with many feet, especially a centipede, millepede or similar creature.
- A branching structure with many separate termini.
Example Sentences
The stability of the mesophases for the polypedes and multipedes is reported in Table 17.
Animals exhibit differences in the number of their feet, and accordingly have been distributed into classes, consisting of bipeds, quadrupeds, and multipedes.
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.
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; […]
Word Forms
- multiped
- multipedes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include multipedal, multiped, multipedous, millipedal, centipedal, millipedic.
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