woodlouse
Britishnoun
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At less than 11 millimeters long the rough woodlouse, a drab scaly invertebrate that feasts on decaying vegetation, might seem like an unlikely master gardener.
From Science Magazine • May 8, 2024
According to a study out today in People, Plants, Planet, the woodlouse is a champion of sorts: the smallest animal yet known to disperse seeds by eating them.
From Science Magazine • May 8, 2024
Among the endangered creatures are a giant frog called the Montserrat mountain chicken; the Spiky yellow woodlouse, existing only land the size of a tennis court on St Helena; and the Grand Cayman blue iguana.
From BBC • May 1, 2017
Want to read a column in which Barney Ronay likens Marouane Fellaini to a beautiful peasant daughter in some seigneurial mediaeval fiefdom and Andy Carroll to a giant doomed woodlouse?
From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2012
The principal food of this little fish consists in a marine Crustacean called Idotea entomon, an animal allied to our common woodlouse.
From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis
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