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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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Shaped vaguely like a woodlouse, these triungulinids, as they are called, are very active little fellows.
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.
I also dreamt about a spider that metamorphosized into a rat, and then changed into a woodlouse!
The broadly distributed woodlouse, Armadillidium vulgare is a common representative of mesic to mesic-xeric habitats.
One of the few people who had not been at the fire was our friend woodlouse.
Up to the present this is the only woodlouse which has been found in the nests of British ants.

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