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- noun Plural form of
woodlouse .
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Examples
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"The Bug Hotel is really a more sophisticated log-pile to provide food and shelter for creatures such as woodlice, centipedes and slugs.
unknown title 2009
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Shiny, striped and pygmy woodlice slunk into crevices while a dozen pallid pot worms squirmed placidly in the damper areas; one of their larger relatives – a grey earthworm – lay listless but alive on the black soil.
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• Pill Bugs, or woodlice, or roly-polies, are weirder than you think: they are actually crustaceans, related more closely to lobsters and shrimp and so on than to insects or spiders.
My Own (Borrowed) Menagerie Heather McDougal 2008
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• Pill Bugs, or woodlice, or roly-polies, are weirder than you think: they are actually crustaceans, related more closely to lobsters and shrimp and so on than to insects or spiders.
Archive 2008-08-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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Touching wet ground softens the skin, and this allows it to be penetrated by beasties such as woodlice.
In the garden this week: Listless lawns, plus squashes and pumpkins 2010
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And evolution isn't a "theory," it's a fact: "The first visible mobile residents on dry land were probably like modern woodlice."
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See the little woodlice run, oh what jolly, jolly fun!
Thursday Update: Thatsnews 2009
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See the little woodlice run, oh what jolly, jolly fun!
Archive 2009-10-01 Thatsnews 2009
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I don't respect the idea that we may have lived before as goats, and could live again as woodlice.
Johann Hari: Stand Up for the Right to Criticize Religion 2009
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I don't respect the idea that we may have lived before as goats, and could live again as woodlice ....
Johann Hari: Despite the Riots and Threats, I Stand By What I Wrote 2009
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When I was young, I used to turn over rocks to find woodlice. Some people call them pillbugs—though my favorite name is rolly pollies.
Motherhood, Metamorphosis | Rachel Mans McKenny rachelmansmckenny 2022
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