The woodlouse crawled across the window ledge.
Source: tatoeba (9929246)
Woodlouse
//ˈwʊdˌlaʊs//
Synonyms for "woodlouse" (49 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (24)
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1 entriesSynonyms
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
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9 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
2 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
123 translations across 67 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- κουβαρίς noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- ὀνίσκος noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Arabic
1 entries- قَمْل الخَشَب noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Armenian
1 entries- նեպուկ noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Asturian
1 entries- gocha noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- məryəmqurdu noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Bashkir
1 entries- ҡырғаяҡ noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Basque
1 entries- kukurutx noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Belarusian
1 entries- макры́ца noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Breton
1 entries- laou-dar noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Bulgarian
1 entries- мокри́ца noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Burmese
1 entries- ပိုးလုံးကောင် noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Catalan
1 entries- porquet de Sant Antoni noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- خِلێرە noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 木蝨 /木虱 noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 土鱉蟲 /土鳖虫 noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- 木蝨 /木虱 noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- 潮蟲 /潮虫 noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- 藥丸蟲 /药丸虫 noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Chuvash
4 entries- кӑпшанкӑ noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- кӑркаяк noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- тӗклӗ таракан noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- ҫӗрхут noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Cornish
1 entries- gwragh oles noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Czech
2 entries- autobus noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- svinka noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Danish
1 entries- bænkebider noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Dutch
3 entries- keldermot noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- pissebed noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- varkensbeest noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Esperanto
1 entries- onisko noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Estonian
1 entries- kakand noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Faroese
1 entries- grátt undir steini noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Finnish
2 entries- saunamaija noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- siira noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
French
2 entries- cloporte noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- cochon de saint Antoine noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Galician
1 entries- porquiño de santo Antón noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
German
3 entries- Assel noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- Kellerassel noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- Landassel noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Greek
2 entries- καβρομαμούνα noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- ονίσκος noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Hindi
2 entries- काष्ठ यूका noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- दीमक noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Hungarian
3 entries- gömbászka noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- pinceászka noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- érdes pinceászka noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Icelandic
2 entries- grálodda noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- grápadda noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Ido
1 entries- aselo noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Indonesian
1 entries- kutu kayu noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Irish
2 entries- cláirseach noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- míol críon noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Italian
3 entries- armadillo volgare noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- onisco noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- porcellino di terra noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Japanese
2 entries- 団子虫 noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- 草鞋虫 noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Kazakh
1 entries- есекқұрт noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Khmer
1 entries- ខ្មូតដី noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Korean
1 entries- 쥐며느리 noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- нымсакчы noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Latin
2 entries- oniscus noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- tylos noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Lithuanian
1 entries- vėdarėlis noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Māori
1 entries- pāpapa noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Navajo
1 entries- wónitłʼizí noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Norman
1 entries- trie d'bouais noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Norwegian
4 entries- kaffebiller noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- munkelus noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- skrukketroll noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- tussalus noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- kaffebiller noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- munkelus noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- skrukketroll noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- tusselus noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- تسبیح بوجكی noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Persian
1 entries- خر خاکی noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Polish
1 entries- stonoga noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Portuguese
4 entries- bicho-de-conta noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- porca-sara noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- tatu noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- tatu-de-jardim noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Russian
1 entries- мокри́ца noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Scots
1 entries- slater noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- cailleach-Eòsag noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- cailleach-cheòsach noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- cailleach-chòsach noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- cailleach-chòsag (Uist) noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- mokrica noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- мокрица noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Slovak
1 entries- svinka noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Slovene
2 entries- krovec noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- lesna uš noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Spanish
4 entries- bicho bolita noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- bicho de bola noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- bichobolita noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- chanchito noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Swedish
1 entries- gråsugga noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Telugu
1 entries- నామవాచకం noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Turkish
1 entries- tespih böceği noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Turkmen
1 entries- eşekýassyk noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Ukrainian
1 entries- мокри́ця noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Uzbek
1 entries- eshakqurt noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Vietnamese
2 entries- bọ đất noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- mọt ẩm noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Welsh
3 entries- gwrach y lludw noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- mochyn coed noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- pryf lludw noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
West-Frisian
2 entries- krobbe noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
- stienkrobbe noun (any species of suborder Oniscidea)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
When I was a kid we called sowbugs “roly-polys”, because they roll up in a ball when threatened. In some other places that kind of isopod is called a “woodlouse”.
Source: tatoeba (10614360)
In addition, both the woodlouse and the crayfish possess an unpaired medial nerve which runs along the whole length of the ventral nerve cord, linking adjacent ganglia.
Source: wiktionary
Woodlice commonly produce offspring 1-3 times per year, with spring and autumn broods most common. Woodlice often survive for longer than a year, with longevity of 2-5 years not uncommon.
Source: wiktionary
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