MYRIOPODS Synonyms

• invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin

• general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate

• a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine

• a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly

• insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis

• a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

• annoy persistently

• tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information

• chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors

• small air-breathing arthropod

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• lacking a backbone or spinal column

• any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification

• any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs