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n. - A genus of Old World terrestrial isopods.

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Usage examples (13)
  • Onisciform: shaped like a wood-louse, Oniscus sp.; applied to certain
  • (Oniscus), very like our common English species, on a nearly perpendicular slope.
  • But little he cared; for as soon as the ruins of the steeple were well between his legs, he poked and peered among the falling stones, and shifted his spectacles, and pulled...
  • "An entirely new Oniscus, and three obscure Podurellae!
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