Definition of Oniscoid

1. like a woodlouse [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oniscoid

onion thrips
onion yellow-dwarf virus
onion yellow dwarf
onioned
onionier
onioniest
onioning
onionless
onionlike
onions
onionskin
onionskins
oniony
oniric
onirocritic
oniscoid (current term)
onium
oniums
onko-
onkus
onlap
onlapped
onlapping
onlaps
onlay
onlay graft
onlays
onlead
onliest
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Literary usage of Oniscoid

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

1. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1859)
"NEW oniscoid. THE Rev. Mr. Hogan has read to the Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association, a paper " On the Occurrence of a new British ..."

2. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1888)
"... associated with dermal ossicles; (5) coprolites, and (6) some nearly entire and one entire pala;oniscoid fish. All these are from the black base of the ..."

3. Notes on the Natural History of the Strait of Magellan and West Coast of by Robert Oliver Cunningham (1871)
"Under some stones I found a few specimens of an oniscoid Isopod, which were afterwards unfortunately lost. ..."

4. A List of the Publications of the United States National Museum (1875-1900 by United States National Museum, Randolph Iltyd Geare (1902)
"P. 1153. A revision of the wrens of the genus Thryomanes Sclater. By Harry C. Oberholser. pp. 421-450. P. 1154. American oniscoid diplopoda of the order ..."

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