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(Zoöl.) A myriapod with many legs, esp. a
chilognath, as the galleyworm. [Written also millipede
and milliped.]

||Mil*le*po"ra (m&ibreve;l*l&esl;*pō"r&adot;),
n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A genus of
Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.

Mil"le*pore (m&ibreve;l"l&esl;*pōr),
n. [L. mille thousand + porus pore:
cf. F. millépore.] (Zoöl.) Any coral
of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and
perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are
hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia.

Mil"le*po*rite (?), n. (Paleon.)
A fossil millepore.

Mill"er (m&ibreve;l"&etilde;r), n.
1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or
gristmill.

2. A milling machine.

3. (Zoöl.) (a) A
moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear
as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes.

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