pill bug

NOUN
  1. small terrestrial isopod with a convex segmented body that can roll up into a ball
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How To Use pill bug In A Sentence

  • Pill Bugs, or woodlice, or roly-polies, are weirder than you think: they are actually crustaceans, related more closely to lobsters and shrimp and so on than to insects or spiders. My Own (Borrowed) Menagerie
  • In the example of the pill bug, Thierry Rigaud and his collaborators at the University of Poitiers in France have shown that males prefer not to mate with feminized males.
  • Shelled invertebrates also have a home in the collection, including a giant marine isopod (pill bug) from the deep sea below.
  • They include such things as spiders, leeches, millipedes, pill bugs, flatworms, mites, beetles, and water dwellers such as water scorpions and nematode worms.
  • In areas where acid rain is most severe, the supplementary calcium-rich foods that female songbirds depend on - snail shells, isopods such as pill bugs, millipedes, and earthworms - may be in short supply.
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