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pillbug

pillbug is the alternative spelling of pill bug.

Meaning of pill bug

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.

Forms of pillbug

pluralpillbugs

Origin of pillbug

From pill + bug.

Words formed from pillbug

Questions about pillbug

What is pillbug the alternative spelling of?
Pillbug is the alternative spelling of pill bug.

Words near pillbug in the dictionary

  1. pillbox antennae
  2. pillbox antennas
  3. pillbox hat
  4. pillbox hats
  5. pillboxes
  6. pillbug
  7. pillbugs
  8. Pille
  9. pilled
  10. pilled out
  11. pilled up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pillbug (page history and authors); pill bug (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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