Pauropoda

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pauropoda \Pau*rop"o*da\, prop. n. pl. [NL., from Gr. pay^ros
     small + -poda.] (Zool.)
     An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs
     and destitute of trache[ae].
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Pauropoda
       n : an obscure class of minute arthropods with branched antennae
           and 8 to 10 pairs of legs [syn: {class Pauropoda}]