Other names have evolved more colloquially and imaginatively: the Armadillidium is also variously known as a woodlouse, gramfy-gravy, pill bug, roly-poly, monkey pea or cheesy bug.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Sadly, I've always believed that actions speak several billion times louder than words - which is why my ego tends more towards the 'woodlouse' end of the spectrum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

A well-bred woodlouse wouldn't employ you for a scavenger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

He saw a woodlouse run along a log as the flames licked up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Warriors]

If I went on what they actually did, I'd have the ego of a woodlouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

The woodlouse approached the blade, then turned away from it, toppling into the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Warriors]

It has the power of rolling itself into a perfect sphere, like one kind of English woodlouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Apothecary's Drawer Weblog: Giant carnivorous aquatic woodlouse! skip to main | skip to sidebar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giant carnivorous aquatic woodlouse!] Reference

A woodlouse just came into the house, and there have been spiders in the bath lately, plus an invasion of daddy-long legs crane flies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horoscopes, fortune cookies & sex with zombies] Reference

Maybe the idea is for the writer to let us to know that she lives at a similar pitch of intensity to Sylvia Plath and, by implication, that her life is so much more interesting and fulfilled than our dreary little woodlouse-like meanderings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

These were two mugulls and a pathun -- the latter a creature like a two-meter woodlouse, front section folded upright with a massively complex head capable of revolving three-sixty, and a flat back onto which a second row of multiple limbs folded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Caught an animal (Cymothoa) shaped exactly like a woodlouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference

Sauropods and the woodlouse Porcellio scaber were infinitely more interesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jalopnik] Reference

Poll or survey: Chances of freefalling woodlouse putting a dent in my forehead?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Consumption of two Bt and six non-Bt corn varieties by the woodlouse Porcellio scaber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Consumers Association News Headlines] Reference

Monster from the deep: Shocked oil workers catch two-and-a-half foot long cousin of the woodlouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Monster from the deep: Oil workers shocked to find gigantic cousin of the woodlouse clinging to their submarine.    From Wordnik.com.  [TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History] Reference

He often got into scrapes; but he declared that, like a hedgehog or slater, or woodlouse, he always managed to roll himself out of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea] Reference

Creaky atmospheric slants of the Mogwai ilk have made their way into the composition of an ole Jeffo album, 'If Life Exists?', rather like a woodlouse making its way into your floorboards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angry Ape] Reference

I cycled through it, showboating a little, and then crashed spectacularly, panniers all over the place, me flailing around like an upturned woodlouse, trapped under the bike, all captured on many cameras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Again, more remote, but still very definite, resemblances unite the lobster with the woodlouse, the king crab, the water flea, and the barnacle, and separate them from all other animals; whence they collectively constitute the larger group, or class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

A woodlouse from beneath the dung; and lastly, numerous spiders, which I suppose prey on these small attendants and scavengers of the waterfowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Wikipedia calls it a woodlouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yatima » 2008 » May] Reference

Giant carnivorous aquatic woodlouse!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giant carnivorous aquatic woodlouse!] Reference

I am almost sure that it is a baby woodlouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [A shell of a different kind] Reference

Said a poet to a woodlouse -- "Thou art certainly my brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heptalogia] Reference

The woodlouse or the maggot's weak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgian Poetry 1920-22] Reference

P. aselliformis (woodlouse-like); Fig. 75.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

This woodlouse is Porcellionides pruinosus.    From Wordnik.com.  [xenogere] Reference

Removed woodlouse, put back together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

= cucaracha = woodlouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Novelas Cortas] Reference

"Notwithstanding which, O poet," spake the woodlouse, very blandly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heptalogia] Reference