sow-bugn.
1. A woodlouse of the genus Oniscus, esp. O. asellus.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > family Oniscidae or genus Oniscus
lockchestera1400
sow14..
lugdora1425
louk?a1450
lockchestc1450
cheslip1530
palmer1538
chestworm1544
Robin Goodfellow's louse1552
monk's peason1558
cheslock1574
porcelet1578
swine louse1579
hog-louse1580
multiped1601
kitchen-bob1610
woodlouse1611
loop1612
millipede1612
timber-sow1626
cheeselog1657
sow-louse1658
thurse-louse1658
onisc1661
monkey pea1682
slater1684
slatter1739
sow-bug1750
Oniscus1806
pig louse1819
hob-thrush1828
land-slater1863
pig's louse1888
wall-louse1899
oniscoid1909
chucky-pig1946
1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 157 Sow-bug or Wood-louse.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. iv. 139 He recommends to his credulous patient to take a certain number of sow-bugs per diem.
1851 Beck's Florist 41 One of the pits, that was full of sow-bugs.
2. U.S. A small marine crustacean of the genus Idotea.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > family Idoteidae > member of genus Idotea
box-slater1869
sow-bug1883
1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 186/1 The common sow-bug (idotæa) often illumines the crevices and sea-weeds along our shores.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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