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Millepede

noun
1.
Any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs.  Synonyms: milliped, millipede.





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... view, his general estimate of things, is no longer of much importance. It is perhaps just the refinement of his intellectual conscience that makes him hesitate and linger on the way, he dreads the temptation to become a dilettante, a millepede, a milleantenna, he knows too well that as a discerner, one who has lost his self-respect no longer commands, no longer LEADS, unless he should aspire to become a great play-actor, a philosophical Cagliostro and spiritual rat-catcher—in short, a misleader. This is in the last instance ...
— Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Nietzsche
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Words linked to "Millepede" :   Myriapoda, Diplopoda, millipede, arthropod, class Diplopoda, class Myriapoda, milliped


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