woodlousen.
/ˈwʊdlaʊs/, U.S. /ˈwʊdˌlaʊs/ 1. A small isopod crustacean of the genus Oniscus or family Oniscidæ; esp. the common species O. asellus, found in old wood, under stones, etc., and having the property of rolling itself up into a ball; also called †cheeselip, hog-louse, slater, sow-bug, etc.
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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
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Anthoine The vermine called, a Ches-lop, or Wood-louse.
1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. 154 Those vile Insects commonly called in English, Wood-lice, or Sows.
1735 J. Swift Misc. Prose & Verse V. 73 An Insect they call a Wood-Louse, That folds up itself in itself for a House.
1844 T. Hood Haunted House ii, in Hood's Mag. Jan. 6 The wood-louse dropped, and rolled into a ball.
1869 I. L. Bird Notes on Old Edinb. 11 The walls were black and rotten, and alive with woodlice.
2. Locally or occasionally applied to various other small invertebrates found in woodwork or in woods, or resembling the crustacean described in sense 1: (a) a white ant or termite; (b) a species of infusorian; (c) one or more species of mite or other parasite; (d) various insects of the family Psocidæ, as the book-louse and death-watch; (e) a millepede of the family Glomeridæ; a pill-millepede.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > [noun] > invertebrate > which bores into wood
wood-worm1540
wood-fretter1611
art-worm1620
arter1622
moch1637
woodlouse1666
pileworm1733
wood-borer1850
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > group Anoplura > order Psocoptera > member of
woodlouse1666
booklouse1753
psocid1884
book mite1952
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 149 A kind of Ant..bred of rotten wood, and thence some call them Wood-lice.
1770 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 150 The volvox oniscus, or wood-louse.
1770 J. R. Forster tr. P. Kalm Trav. N. Amer. (1772) II. 133 Wood-lice (Acarus Americanus, Linn.) abound here.
1781 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 140 In the West Indies, [they are called] Wood Lice, Wood Ants, or White Ants.
1819 D. B. Warden Statist., Polit. & Hist. Acct. U.S. I. 496 Musquitoes and wood-lice [note, Acarus Americanus] are most troublesome in thickly wooded vallies.
1819 D. B. Warden Acc. U.S. II. 525 The wood louse, or Chigo, or Bete Rouge (Acarus sanguinis).
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Wood-louse, a book-worm.
1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 631 The Great Sea-slater or Sea-woodlouse.
1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 632 The well-known Pill-woodlouse.
3. attributive.
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1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxv. 234 The..bird, which..the negroes called woodo-louso-fowlo, from its feeding on wood-lice.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxv. 234 (Illustration) The Yellow Woodpecker or Wood-louse fowl.
1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxiii. 307 The woodlouse tribe (Oniscidæ).
1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 267 Woodlouse-Millipedes (Glomeridæ).
1859 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Instit. (1860) 207 Chitonidæ or Woodlouse shells.
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