n pl :  a group of arthropods having the body made up of numerous similar segments nearly all of which bear true jointed legs and including the millipedes and centipedes .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  myriapod  Myr·i·ap·o·da  myr·io·pod 
 
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