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Definition of Oniscus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Oniscidae; woodlice that cannot roll into a ball.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Oniscidae, Oniscidae
Member holonyms: Sow Bug
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oniscus
Literary usage of Oniscus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1907)
"CHROMOSOME RELATIONS IN THE SPERMA- TOCYTES OF Oniscus. M. LOUISE NICHOLS. ...
L. Nichols, "Spermatogenesis of Oniscus asellus. Linn.," Proc. Am. Phil. ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1835)
"Oniscus gracilis, Montag. 21. Idotea, Fab Oniscus entomon, Lin. 22. ...
Oniscus asellus, Cuv. \32. Armadillo, Lat.. .Oniscus armadillo ..."
3. A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea by Charles Spence Bate, John Obadiah Westwood (1868)
"I SO POD A. NORM ALl A. Oniscus ASELLUS. Specific character. Broadly orate,
sub-depressed, shining; ... Length, three and a half to eight lines. Oniscus ..."
4. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1878)
"Oniscus asellus, Linn., and O. armadillo, L. (Armadillo officinalis, Cuv.)- Class,
Crustacea of the articulate animals. Order, Isopoda. Common, names. ..."
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