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"
Mary Antin
This is no more remarkable, however, than the fact that Fontaria, a myriapod, secretes prussic acid in its own tissues, or than that certain glands of the stomach secrete free hydrochloric acid, and Dolium forms sulphuric acid in its glands.
"Disease in Plants"
H. Marshall Ward
In the myriapod we still have the elongated body and successive pairs of legs.
"The Story of Evolution"
Joseph McCabe