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English
Noun
pill bug (plural pill bugs)
- (US) Any of very many terrestrial crustaceans, of the family Armadillidiidae, a subgroup of the woodlice, that can roll themselves up into a protective ball.
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terrestrial crustacean
- Finnish: pallosiira
- French: cloporte (fr) m, cochon de cave m, cochon de mur m
- German: Rollassel f
- Hungarian: fatetű (hu), (szárazföldi) ászka(rák)
- Japanese: 団子虫 (ja) (だんごむし, dangomushi)
- Navajo: wónitłʼizí
- Russian: мокри́ца (ru) f (mokríca)
- Serbo-Croatian: mokrica (sh) f
- Spanish: bicho bola m, bicho bolita (es) m (Argentina, Uruguay), cochinilla (es) f, porqueta (es) f, bichobolita m (Argentina), chanchito (es) m (Peru, Chile), marranito m (Colombia)
- Swedish: gråsugga (sv) c
- Turkish: tespih böceği (tr)
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