multipede

adj

1. (not-comparable)Having many feet.

noun

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

   “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; […]”

   “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 […]”

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

2. A branching structure with many separate termini.

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

   “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.”