NOUN
- general term for any terrestrial arthropod having an elongated body composed of many similar segments: e.g. centipedes and millipedes
How To Use myriapod In A Sentence
- These tiny myriapods generally resemble very small centipedes.
- Though researchers have invent many kinds of wheeled machine, designing and manufacturing a legged robot like myriapod running in natural environment is still a huge challenge.
- Myriapods have been traditionally considered the closest relatives of hexapods, thus implying only one origin of terrestriality for the tracheate lineage, but this view is now challenged by molecular evidence.
- To the housewife, want is an insidious myriapod creature that crawls in the dark, mates with its own offspring, breeds all the year round, persists like leprosy. The Promised Land
- These tiny myriapods generally resemble very small centipedes.
- Phylogenetic analyses of a wide variety of gene sequences all support the hypothesis that hexapods and crustaceans form a monophyletic group to the exclusion of myriapods and chelicerates.
- Living among these early land plants were a diverse selection of arthropods, including spiders, mites, myriapods and collembolids
- Generations of morphologists have been unable to determine the branching order of Chelicerata, Myriapoda, Crustacea and Insecta.
- To overcome this problem, we used numerous representatives of each: four crustaceans, three myriapods, and even a chelicerate.
- Unlike their relatively benign myriapod cousins, the millipedes, they're meat-eaters. Slate Magazine