multipede

alternative multiped

1. not comparableHaving many feet.

plural multipedes · alternative multiped

1. A creature with many feet, especially a centipede, millepede or similar creature.

   Animals exhibit differences in the number of their feet, and accordingly have been distributed into classes, consisting of bipeds, quadrupeds, and multipedes.

   1832, William Percivall, The anatomy of the horse, embracing the structure of the foot, page 418

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   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; […]

   1742, Charles Owen, An essay towards a natural history of serpents, page 107

   In the course of two weeks there developed in all the aquaria minute crustaceans (shell insects, flea lobsters, water multipedes, infusoria, green algae), a felted mass […]

   1804, W. Kochs, Experiments with Artificial Propagation of Minute Crustaceans, published in the Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, volume 14, page 307

2. A branching structure with many separate termini.

   The stability of the mesophases for the polypedes and multipedes is reported in Table 17.

   2006, Bertrand Donnio, Akira Harada, Akihito Hashidzume, editors, Supramolecular polymers, polymeric betains, oligomers

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   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.

   2011, Takashi Nakanishi, Supramolecular Soft Matter: Applications in Materials and Organic Electronics, page 314