Woodlouse

Word WOODLOUSE
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Pronunciations /ˈwʊd.ˌlaʊs/

Definitions and meanings of "Woodlouse"

What do we mean by woodlouse?

Any of various terrestrial isopod crustaceans of the suborder Oniscidea, having a gray or brown oval segmented body and commonly found in damp places such as under logs. Some woodlice can roll into a ball. noun

A terrestrial isopod crustacean (suborder Oniscoidea) with a rigid, segmented exoskeleton, often capable of being rolled into a ball, found in damp, dark places, and feeding only on dead plant matter, usually lives under stones or bark. noun

Any of the terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea, which have a rigid, segmented exoskeleton, often being capable of rolling into a ball, and feed only on dead plant matter, usually living in damp, dark places, such as under stones or bark.

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The word "woodlouse" in example sentences

Other names have evolved more colloquially and imaginatively: the Armadillidium is also variously known as a woodlouse, gramfy-gravy, pill bug, roly-poly, monkey pea or cheesy bug. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sadly, I've always believed that actions speak several billion times louder than words - which is why my ego tends more towards the 'woodlouse' end of the spectrum. ❋ Juliette (2009)

That is the name of one kind of ‘pill bug’, which is a crustacean, a woodlouse, related to shrimps but living on land – where it betrays its recent aquatic ancestry by breathing with gills, which have to be kept moist. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)

Yet one is a modified woodlouse, while the other is a modified modified in the same direction millipede. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)

Maybe the idea is for the writer to let us to know that she lives at a similar pitch of intensity to Sylvia Plath and, by implication, that her life is so much more interesting and fulfilled than our dreary little woodlouse-like meanderings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The pill millipede has two pairs of legs on most segments, the pill woodlouse only one. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)

The resemblance to a woodlouse is superficial – convergent. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)

A mentally retarded woodlouse would have a job to make a worse mess than GB. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If I went on what they actually did, I'd have the ego of a woodlouse. ❋ Juliette (2009)

Again, more remote, but still very definite, resemblances unite the lobster with the woodlouse, the king crab, the water flea, and the barnacle, and separate them from all other animals; whence they collectively constitute the larger group, or class, ‘Crustacea’. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Apothecary's Drawer Weblog: Giant carnivorous aquatic woodlouse! skip to main | skip to sidebar ❋ Ray Girvan (2004)

A woodlouse just came into the house, and there have been spiders in the bath lately, plus an invasion of daddy-long legs crane flies. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2006)

These were two mugulls and a pathun -- the latter a creature like a two-meter woodlouse, front section folded upright with a massively complex head capable of revolving three-sixty, and a flat back onto which a second row of multiple limbs folded. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It has the power of rolling itself into a perfect sphere, like one kind of English woodlouse. ❋ Unknown (2003)

[You know what] [a fucking] woodlouse is ❋ Coolgyu2067 (2013)

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