A terrestrial crustacean that is a member of the suborder Oniscidea.
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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 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 .
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 .
6 Caught an animal (Cymothoa) shaped exactly like a woodlouse :
7 In the common woodlouse , for instance, microbes transmitted only through eggs act to convert genetic males into females.
8 With their semi-translucent segmented bodies and oversized hind legs, they looked like composite creatures -part shrimp, part woodlouse , part flea.
9 I picked up a perfectly formed shell, which had belonged to an animal not unlike the woodlouse : then, joining my uncle, I said:
10 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.
11 So the poor old Woodlouse retreated out of sight, consumed with shame.
12 Professor Woodlouse read it aloud in its quaint and musty phraseology, to wit:
13 Woodlouse saw that there was a pause, and so began again.
14 One of the few people who had not been at the fire was our friend Woodlouse .
15 Woodlouse resisted it for a long time, but in the end he was obliged to give way.
16 Woodlouse and the Swede looked at each other meaningly, and each went his way without saying a word.
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