Pronunciation
Noun
woodlouse (plural woodlice)
- A terrestrial isopod crustacean (suborder Oniscoidea) with a rigid, segmented exoskeleton, often capable of being rolled into a ball, found in damp, dark places, and feeding only on dead plant matter, usually lives under stones or bark.
Synonyms
- (local terms) armadillo bug, butcher boy, pill bug, rolly polly, slater, sow bug, sai bug, saisai gnat, saikor bug, sairynkor bug, cham chamruam bug
Translations
isopod
- Belarusian: макрыца (be) (makrýca) f
- Bulgarian: мокрица (bg) (mokríca) f
- Catalan: porquet de Sant Antoni (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 潮蟲 (cmn), 潮虫 (cmn) (cháochóng)
- Czech: svinka (cs) f
- Danish: bænkebider (da) c
- Dutch: pissebed (nl) m, varkensbeest (nl) n (maybe only in Flanders)
- Finnish: siira (fi), saunamaija (fi) colloquial
- French: cloporte (fr) m
- German: Landassel (de) f, Assel (de) f
- Ido: aselo (io)
- Italian: onisco (it) m, armadillo volgare (it) m, porcellino di terra (it) m
- Japanese: ワラジムシ (ja) (warajimushi), 草鞋虫 (ja) (わらじむし, warajimushi), ダンゴムシ (ja) (dangomushi), 団子虫 (ja) (だんごむし, dangomushi)
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- Jèrriais: trie d'bouais f
- Lithuanian: vėdarėlis (lt) m
- Navajo: wónitłʼizí
- Norwegian: skrukketroll (no), kaffebiller (no), munkelus (no), tussalus (no)
- Nynorsk: skrukketroll (nn), kaffebiller (nn), munkelus (nn), tusselus (nn)
- Portuguese: bicho-de-conta (pt), tatuzinhos de jardim (pt)
- Russian: мокрица (ru) (mokríca) f
- Spanish: cochinilla de humedad (es) f, chanchito de tierra (es) m, bicho bolita (es) m, bicho de bola (es) m, marranito (es) m
- Swedish: gråsugga (sv)
- Telugu: నామవాచకం (te)
- Turkish: böceği (tr)
- Ukrainian: мокриця (uk) (mokrýcja) f
- West Frisian: krobbe (fy)
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