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Meanings of slater in inglês
A terrestrial crustacean that is a member of the suborder Oniscidea.
Synonyms
Examples for "woodlouse"
Examples for "woodlouse"
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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.
Usage of slater in inglês
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
Otto Stolpe, the slater, was spokesman, and opened the banquet by offering brandy.
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So clever a workman was not likely to remain long a village slater.
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She's postmodern, you see, a blank-slater, a strong social constructivist.
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A slater had given it to him for fifteen francs.
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But the slater, he climbs higher than the mason.
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An old slater told me the secret of how to see with the 'second sight.'
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Sea slater We saw this wood louse-looking insect while walking in Clontarf along the sea wall.
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A slater is seen upon the highest part of the roof.-All is bustle and activity.
12
DOC deputy director general Mike Slater said it was the right decision.
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But has the new Christian Slater hacker drama taken things too far?
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The implications of the recent defamation case taken against blogger Cameron Slater.
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These were the principal expenses in the preparation of the Slater Museum.
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The bright particular star in this firmament of friends was Mrs. Slater.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Translations for slater
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Slater through the time