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Sow bug or gribble
Answer for the clue "Sow bug or gribble ", 6 letters:
isopod
Alternative clues for the word isopod
- 14-legged crustacean
- Aquatic crustacean
- Pill bug, biologically
- A pill bug is one
- Little crustacean that looks like sea lice
- Pill bug or wood louse
- Any of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling
- Crustacean with 14 legs
- Crustacean such as a wood louse
Word definitions for isopod in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1835, from French isopode , from Latin isopoda (neuter plural), from Greek iso- (see iso- ) + pod- , stem of pous "foot" (see foot (n.)).
Usage examples of isopod.
It swims slowly, conserving its energy, not alerting its prey, commonly flatworms and tiny-segmented creatures, predominantly isopods.
It swims slowly and smoothly, its fins moving the water very little, which apparently contributes to its own concealment in a blind environment and makes it easier to detect the vibrations of its prey, any of several varieties of tiny segmented creatures, predominantly isopods.
At that time we lived in an apartment block on the edge of Hampstead Heath which was called Isopod One and had been designed in the international style, along socialist principles, by a famous architecture collective called the Isopod.
These, in turn, become food for various flatworms and numerous tiny-segmented creatures, such as isopods, which, in turn, serve as food for small, blind, white crayfish, felts and salamanders.