Definition of Oniscidae

1. Noun. A family of Isopoda.

Exact synonyms: Family Oniscidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Isopoda, Order Isopoda
Member holonyms: Genus Oniscus, Oniscus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oniscidae

Oncidium papilio kramerianum
Oncocerca
Oncomelania
Oncovin
Oncovirinae
Ondaatje
Ondatra
Ondatra zibethica
Ondine
Ondine's curse
Ondiri disease
Onega
Oneida
Oneidas
Onions
Oniscidae (current term)
Oniscus
Onley
Onmyodo
Ono
Onobrychis
Onobrychis viciaefolia
Onobrychis viciifolia
Onoclea
Onoclea sensibilis
Onoclea struthiopteris
Onodi
Onodi cell
Onondaga
Onondagas

Literary usage of Oniscidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Oniscidae. The sow bugs. Terrestrial isopods with an elliptical body, which is more or less ... Key to the genera of Oniscidae here described: Fig. ..."

2. A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea by Charles Spence Bate, John Obadiah Westwood (1868)
"... apparatus fitted for the use of aquatic existence, whilst the Oniscidae differ from all the rest in having the branchiae transformed into lungs. ..."

3. Contributions to the Natural History of the Isopoda by Harriet Richardson (1904)
"The Oniscidae, a terrestrial family, have air sacs developed in the ... those of the first pair often being coalesced in the Oniscidae; in the females these ..."

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