Meanings of woodlouse in English

Discovered in China, the animal looked like a woodlouse with claws.

As I watched, a woodlouse blundered into a translucent tripline and the web vibrated.

A well-bred woodlouse wouldn't employ you for a scavenger.

They included giant woodlouse-like creatures known as trilobites, the five-eyed Opabinia, and the spiny slug-like Wiwaxia.

I may be working minute by minute under the same gigantic limitations of understanding as a woodlouse.

Caught an animal (Cymothoa) shaped exactly like a woodlouse:

In the common woodlouse, for instance, microbes transmitted only through eggs act to convert genetic males into females.

With their semi-translucent segmented bodies and oversized hind legs, they looked like composite creatures -part shrimp, part woodlouse, part flea.

I picked up a perfectly formed shell, which had belonged to an animal not unlike the woodlouse: then, joining my uncle, I said:

He often got into scrapes; but he declared that, like a hedgehog or slater, or woodlouse, he always managed to roll himself out of them.

So the poor old Woodlouse retreated out of sight, consumed with shame.

Professor Woodlouse read it aloud in its quaint and musty phraseology, to wit:

Woodlouse saw that there was a pause, and so began again.

One of the few people who had not been at the fire was our friend Woodlouse.

Woodlouse resisted it for a long time, but in the end he was obliged to give way.

Woodlouse and the Swede looked at each other meaningly, and each went his way without saying a word.