caddice
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Some caddice larvæ build houses of wood instead of stone.
From The Insect Folk by Margaret Warner Morley
Our little caddice has made a neat little house of fine sand grains very nicely put together.
From The Insect Folk by Margaret Warner Morley
Case′-shot, canister-shot, an artillery projectile for use at close quarters; Case′-worm, the caddice; Cas′ing, the act of the verb Case: an outside covering of any kind, as of boards, plaster, &c.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
It is the larva of the caddice fly, or case fly.
From The Insect Folk by Margaret Warner Morley
If you are fortunate, your caddice will build for itself a little glass house, through whose walls you can look and see what is going on inside.
From The Insect Folk by Margaret Warner Morley
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