Sowbug

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A woodlouse.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. any one of numerous species of terrestrial Isopoda belonging to Oniscus, Porcellio, and allied genera of the family Oniscidæ. They feed chiefly on decaying vegetable substances.
  • n.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A hog-louse; a pill-bug; a sow; any terrestrial isopod of the family Oniscidæ, as Oniscus asellus. Some sow-bugs can roll themselves up into a ball like a tiny armadillo. See sow, n., 2, and cut under Oniscus.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. terrestrial isopod having an oval segmented body (a shape like a sow)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    slater    wood louse