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woodlouse meaning in Myanmar

ပိုးလုံးကောင် pui:lum:kaung

/ˈwʊdˌlaʊs/

woodlouse in Myanmar: ပိုးလုံးကောင် (pui:lum:kaung). In English, woodlouse means any of various small terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea, having a rigid segmented exoskeleton, usually feeding on dead plant matter and living in damp, dark places, such as under stones or bark. Several common species roll into a ball when disturbed, hence names such as pill bug and roly-poly.

Myanmar words for woodlouse

small land crustacean of suborder Oniscidea
ပိုးလုံးကောင် pui:lum:kaung

English meaning of woodlouse

  1. noun Any of various small terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea, having a rigid segmented exoskeleton, usually feeding on dead plant matter and living in damp, dark places, such as under stones or bark. Several common species roll into a ball when disturbed, hence names such as pill bug and roly-poly.

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Questions about woodlouse in Myanmar

What is the meaning of woodlouse in Myanmar?
Woodlouse in Myanmar is ပိုးလုံးကောင် (pui:lum:kaung).
woodlouse ရဲ့ အဓိပ္ပာယ်က ဘာလဲ။
Woodlouse: ပိုးလုံးကောင် (pui:lum:kaung).
What does woodlouse mean in English?
Woodlouse means any of various small terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea, having a rigid segmented exoskeleton, usually feeding on dead plant matter and living in damp, dark places, such as under stones or bark. Several common species roll into a ball when disturbed, hence names such as pill bug and roly-poly.

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