"pill bug" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pill bugs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pill bug (plural pill bugs)
  1. (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. Tags: US Categories (lifeform): Isopods Synonyms: pillbug Synonyms (terrestrial crustacean): potato bug, roly-poly, sowbug Translations (terrestrial crustacean): pallosiira (Finnish), cloporte [masculine] (French), cochon de cave [masculine] (French), cochon de mur [masculine] (French), Rollassel [feminine] (German), fatetű (Hungarian), (szárazföldi) ászka (rák) (Hungarian), 団子虫 (dangomushi) (alt: だんごむし) (Japanese), wónitłʼizí (Navajo), mokrica [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), bicho bola (Spanish), bicho bolita (Spanish), cochinilla (Spanish), tespih böceği (Turkish)

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      "sense": "terrestrial crustacean",
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      "sense": "terrestrial crustacean",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "mokrica"
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      "word": "bicho bola"
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "terrestrial crustacean",
      "word": "bicho bolita"
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      "sense": "terrestrial crustacean",
      "word": "cochinilla"
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