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