A terrestrial crustacean that is a member of the suborder Oniscidea.
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Examples for "slater "
Examples for "slater "
1 A slater on the slope of a neighbouring roof eyed me curiously.
2 A slater is seen upon the highest part of the roof.
3 But the slater , he climbs higher than the mason. His face was purple.
4 DOC deputy director general Mike Slater said it was the right decision.
5 But has the new Christian Slater hacker drama taken things too far?
1 Discovered in China, the animal looked like a woodlouse with claws.
2 As I watched, a woodlouse blundered into a translucent tripline and the web vibrated.
3 A well-bred woodlouse wouldn't employ you for a scavenger.
4 They included giant woodlouse - like creatures known as trilobites, the five-eyed Opabinia, and the spiny slug-like Wiwaxia.
5 I may be working minute by minute under the same gigantic limitations of understanding as a woodlouse .
1 Soon after Richard was adopted, Orwell's flat was wrecked by a doodlebug .
2 He figured out how to take out the Nazi doodlebug flying bombs!
3 I just thrash about, and gang in circles like a doodlebug .
4 But he sees a doodlebug that looks at him funny and he laughs out loud.
5 The side of Bobby Lee's face twitched as though a doodlebug were crawling across it.
1 Jam roly - poly arrived on the scene in 1845, courtesy of Eliza Acton.
2 For such things had he known since he was a roly - poly puppy.
3 The roly - poly couple behind him parted to let him stumble past.
4 Fanny has made the roly - poly pudding,' says he; the chops are my part.
5 They both heard a curious roly - poly noise under the attic floor.
1 The worm wriggled for a moment and became a very large sow bug .
2 The sow bug became a beetle.
3 She found a translucent fossil rock which reminded her of a Miro & he watched ants assisting a sow bug to climb the driftwood.
4 The group includes the terrestrial pill bugs and sow bugs , with numerous marine forms.
5 Sow bugs had no speed at all.
1 It yielded one pill bug , one puparial case, and no plant inclusions.
2 Lizzie flicked a pill bug off the purple rhododendrons she'd arranged inside a pitcher.
3 Though I'd forward the pill bug and casing to the entomologist, I doubted either would be of much use.
4 In the pill bug Armadillidium vulgare, the presence of Wolbachia is also associated with detrimental effects on host fertility and lifespan.
5 The group includes the terrestrial pill bugs and sow bugs, with numerous marine forms.
1 This was wise because he thus got ahead of the potato bug .
2 The potato bug is another fellow to look out for.
3 Perhaps it will interest that old farmer potato bug .
4 Simple as a child, he is, and so gentle that it well-nigh breaks his heart to kill a potato bug .
5 And on the under side of the leaf of the potato vine are the bright orange eggs of the potato bug .
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