woodlouse

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I picked up a perfectly formed shell, which had belonged to an animal not unlike the woodlouse: then, joining my uncle, I said Look at this Very well," said he quietly, "it is the shell of a crustacean, of an extinct species called a trilobite.

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  1. any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats

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  • This was a cowboy game, after all - and we wanted to be shooting men in hats, not skulking about in the dark like some kind of woodlouse. —  VideoGamer.com - All Updates
  • Vampire Weekend, a perfectly reasonable bunch who've received acres of press for tunes that sound not a million miles away from RRR's, save for the fact they aren't as catchy, sound more like Sting, and tend to have the emotional impact of a woodlouse. —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
  • Creaky atmospheric slants of the Mogwai ilk have made their way into the composition of an ole Jeffo album, 'If Life Exists?', rather like a woodlouse making its way into your floorboards. —  Angry Ape
  • It took a while to find all the screws that held it together (and on completion had 2 screws left, so had to open it all up again) but I couldn't find anything wrong - apart from a woodlouse carcass jammed between two bits of plastic. —  Army Rumour Service
  • The woodlouse, sowpig, or hoglouse abounds with a nitrous salt which has long found favour for curing scrofulous [565] disease, and inveterate struma, as also against some kinds of stone in the bladder The Hoglouse, or Millepede was the primitive medicinal pill. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
 

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