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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Malacopoda
 軟足亞門

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mal·a·cop·o·da prop. n. pl.  Zool. A class of air-breathing Arthropoda; -- called also Protracheata, and Onychophora.
 Note: ☞ They somewhat resemble myriapods, and have from seventeen to thirty-three pairs of short, imperfectly jointed legs, two pairs of simple jaws, and a pair of antennae. The trancheae are connected with numerous spiracles scattered over the surface of the body. Peripatus is the only known genus. See Peripatus.
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