tatuzinho — meaning in English
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English meaning
- woodlouse noun A small creature with a hard, segmented shell that lives outdoors in damp, dark spots such as under stones, and eats dead plants; some kinds curl into a ball when touched.
Senses
tatuzinho is used for these senses in English:
- roly-poly (Canada, US) In full roly-poly bug: a small terrestrial invertebrate which tends to roll into a ball when disturbed, such as a woodlouse (suborder Oniscidea, especially a pill bug (family Armadillidiidae) or a sowbug (family Porcellionidae)) or a pill millipede (superorder Oniscomorpha).
- woodlouse Any of the terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea, which have a rigid, segmented exoskeleton, often being capable of rolling into a ball, and feed only on dead plant matter, usually living in damp, dark places, such as under stones or bark.
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