cheslips
cheslips is the plural of cheslip.
Meaning of cheslip
Noun
cheslip (plural cheslips)
- A woodlouse.
- Mouffet states that “the Asiatic Greeks called them χγαμος from their likenesse^([sic]) to a bean (Galen), for it looks like it when the Cheslip rolls itself up into a round body.”1860, Ernest Adams, “On the names of the wood-louse”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, page 15
- Synonyms:
- woodlouse
Questions about cheslips
- What is cheslips the plural of?
- Cheslips is the plural of cheslip.
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