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wood louse
wood·louse or wood louse (wo͝od′lous′)n. pl. wood·lice (-līs′) or wood lice Any of various terrestrial isopod crustaceans of the suborder Oniscidea, having a gray or brown oval segmented body and commonly found in damp places such as under logs. Some woodlice can roll into a ball. Also called pillbug, slater, sowbug.wood′ louse` n. any of various tiny isopod crustaceans, often of damp shady habitats, as the pill bug and the sow bug. [1605–15] wood louse
wood louse: see crustaceancrustacean , primarily aquatic arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea. Most of the 44,000 crustacean species are marine, but there are many freshwater forms. The few groups that inhabit terrestrial areas have not been particularly successful in an evolutionary sense; most require ..... Click the link for more information. .MedicalSeecrustacean |