diplopod (diplopod)

and n. I. a. Double footed: an epithet applied to the chilognathous Myriapod a or Diplopod a, which have two pairs of limbs on each segment of the body. It [a new form of Gregarinida ] was found in the diges tive tube of Glomeris, one of the diplopod myriopods, and has been named Cnemidospora lutea. Smithsonian Report , 1883, Zoology. II. n. One of the Diplopod a or Chilognatha . Diplopod a (di-plop'ō-da), n . pl . [NL., πούς (ποδ-) = Ε. foot .] The millepeds as an order of myriapods; the Chilog natha (which see): so called from the doubling in number of the legs, most of the segments of the body having two pairs: contrasted with Chilopod a.