pill bug

See also: pillbug

English

Alternative forms

• pillbug

Noun

pill bug (plural pill bugs)

1. (US) Any of very many terrestrial crustaceans, of the family Armadillidiidae, a subgroup of the woodlice, that can roll themselves up into a protective ball.

Synonyms

• (terrestrial crustacean): potato bug, roly-poly, sowbug

Translations

terrestrial crustacean

• Finnish: pallosiira
• French: cloporte (fr) m, cochon de cave m, cochon de mur m
• German: Rollassel f
• Hungarian: fatetű (hu), (szárazföldi) ászka(rák)
• Japanese: 団子虫 (ja) (だんごむし, dangomushi)
• Navajo: wónitłʼizí
• Russian: мокри́ца (ru) f (mokríca)
• Serbo-Croatian: mokrica (sh) f
• Spanish: bicho bola m, bicho bolita (es) m (Argentina, Uruguay), cochinilla (es) f, porqueta (es) f, bichobolita m (Argentina), chanchito (es) m (Peru, Chile), marranito m (Colombia)
• Swedish: gråsugga (sv) c
• Turkish: tespih böceği (tr)