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What is a woodlouse?

What is a woodlouse? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of the terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea, which have a rigid, segmented exoskeleton, often being capable of rolling into a ball, and feed only on dead plant matter, usually living in damp, dark places, such as under stones or bark.
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Doctor Fernie gives some interesting extracts with regard to the hog-louse and the woodlouse.
The sea slater Ligia oceanica is another relative of the woodlouse, it lives in the splash zone on rocky shores and can grow surprisingly large, about 2.5 cm.
One of the few people who had not been at the fire was our friend woodlouse.
The broadly distributed woodlouse, Armadillidium vulgare is a common representative of mesic to mesic-xeric habitats.
In the woodlouse these excretory organs open on the second pair of maxillae.
I also dreamt about a spider that metamorphosized into a rat, and then changed into a woodlouse!

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