Definition of Myriopod

1. myriapod [n -S] - See also: myriapod

Lexicographical Neighbors of Myriopod

myricin
myricitrin
myricyl
myringa
myringas
myringectomy
myringitis
myringomycosis
myringoplasty
myringotomies
myringotomy
myriologist
myriologists
myriologue
myriologues
myriopod (current term)
myriopods
myriorama
myrioramas
myrioscope
myrioscopes
myristate
myristates
myristic
myristic acid
myristicin
myristin
myristoleic
myristoleic acid
myristone

Literary usage of Myriopod

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Common Insects: A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests by Alpheus Spring Packard (1873)
"... and thus a common plan of structure underlies the entire class of insects. A very strange myriopod has been discovered by Sir John 179. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1884)
"... and lately claimed to be a myriopod by Mr. Scudder,* who proposes for the hypothetical groups, of which he considers it as the type, the name. ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"... not exceeding a quarter of an inch in length, with a superficial resemblance to a myriopod, such as Scolopendra, having a pair of well developed, ..."

4. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1905)
"86, really a spined myriopod; see H. Woodward, ... myriopod from the hollow trunk of an erect Sigillaria in the South Joggins Coalfield, Nova Scotia. ..."

5. Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1878)
"... the shell with its lining membrane, the analogue of the membrane in which, as I have elsewhere shown,* the young myriopod is inclosed, and retained ..."

6. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1914)
"... this interdependence would react against the myriopod. Under the original continuously forested condition of the eastern United States" the distribution ..."

7. A Dictionary of the Fossils of Pennsylvania and Neighboring States Named in by J. Peter Lesley, Pennsylvania Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey (1889)
"... described it as perhaps an insect (crustacean) moving by leaps rather than like the hairy or many- legged worms. (I copy also two other myriopod tracks, ..."

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