n. [無(wú)脊椎] 千足蟲(chóng)；倍足綱節(jié)動(dòng)物（等于millepede）
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詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?millipedes;
中文詞源
millipede 千足蟲(chóng)
milli-,千，-ped,腳，詞源同foot.比較centipede.
英文詞源
millipede (n.)
also millepede, c. 1600, from Latin millepeda "wood louse," a type of crawling insect, from mille "thousand" (see million) + pes (genitive pedis) "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)). Probably a loan-translation of Greek chiliopous.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. And there wasn't just one millipede found - there was a plague of them!