pea bug

noun — 2 senses

noun

Colloquial Any of several small beetles of the genus Bruchus which destroy pea plants; a pea weevil.

Colloquial A woodlouse (Oniscidea spp.).

Morning, with rain in the sky, and the forest subtly brooding, and me feeling no bigger than a pea-bug between the roots of my fir.1923, D. H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious:

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