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pill-bug

Polish translation: kulanka

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English term or phrase:pill-bug
Polish translation:kulanka
Entered by: Kamila Sławińska

17:24 Dec 22, 2015
English to Polish translations [PRO]
Science - Zoology / Insects
English term or phrase: pill-bug
No właśnie, jak nazywa się po polsku tkei zwierzątko, Armadillidium vulgare?
Rejestr tekstu bardzo potoczny, więc nazwa łacińska odpada - wolałabym coś super-potocznego, w stronę "bożej krówki"...

Wiki mówi tyle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidium_vulgare

A kontekst taki (owszem, postać jest bardzo ekscentryczna):
"She used to eat pill bugs, which Mom tried to prevent but Dad said they weren’t really bugs but more like terrestrial crustaceans, that they breathed through gills and had copper in their blood instead of iron, and no one who’d ever eaten shrimp should turn up her nose at a pill bug. I don’t remember eating one myself, but I must have, because I know that they crunch in your mouth like Cheerios."

Słoniocy!
Kamila Sławińska
United States
Local time: 23:03
kulanka
Explanation:
IMO

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kulanka pospolita

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kulanka pospolita

Armadillidium vulgare

Kulanka pospolita (Armadillidium vulgare) posiada biczyk (ostatni segment czułków) podzielony na 2 części. Tutaj wytężałem wzrok, ale im bardziej się wpatrywałem tym bardziej miałem wrażenie, że tutaj podzielone są na trzy, mimo to jestem przekonany, że to właśnie kulanka.
•Nazwa polska: kulanka pospolita
•Nazwa łacińska: Armadillidium vulgare
•Rząd: równonogi (Isopoda)
•Miejsce: Krzemionki
•Data: 20.03.2010
https://kolagen.wordpress.com/category/stawonogi/rownonogi/k...


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Armadillidiida is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of other woodlouse families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals. It is this ability which gives woodlice in this family their common names of pill bugs,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ar...
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Kulanka pospolita – Armadillidium vulgare
http://swiatowadow.flog.pl/wpis/203471/kulanka-pospolita--ar...
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Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
United States
Local time: 23:03
Grading comment
Pięknie dziękuję!
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3 +1kulanka
Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
kulanka


Explanation:
IMO

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Note added at 4 mins (2015-12-22 17:28:47 GMT)
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kulanka pospolita

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Note added at 6 mins (2015-12-22 17:30:48 GMT)
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kulanka pospolita

Armadillidium vulgare

Kulanka pospolita (Armadillidium vulgare) posiada biczyk (ostatni segment czułków) podzielony na 2 części. Tutaj wytężałem wzrok, ale im bardziej się wpatrywałem tym bardziej miałem wrażenie, że tutaj podzielone są na trzy, mimo to jestem przekonany, że to właśnie kulanka.
•Nazwa polska: kulanka pospolita
•Nazwa łacińska: Armadillidium vulgare
•Rząd: równonogi (Isopoda)
•Miejsce: Krzemionki
•Data: 20.03.2010
https://kolagen.wordpress.com/category/stawonogi/rownonogi/k...


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Note added at 7 hrs (2015-12-23 01:19:41 GMT)
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Armadillidiida is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of other woodlouse families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals. It is this ability which gives woodlice in this family their common names of pill bugs,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ar...
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Kulanka pospolita – Armadillidium vulgare
http://swiatowadow.flog.pl/wpis/203471/kulanka-pospolita--ar...

Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
United States
Local time: 23:03
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 34
Grading comment
Pięknie dziękuję!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tomasz Poplawski: Biczyk! Frank, you made my day
28 mins
  -> Thank you. I charge for entertainment separately, but I am glad to have been the source of some merriment. These are the best photos I could find.
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