Ligia
nounHow to pronounce Ligia:
Definition of Ligia:
- Ligia (noun):
- a genus of large dark-colored active terrestrial isopod crustaceans (the type of the family ligiidae) having long antennae and uropods and living about wharves and among rocks along seacoasts see wharf monkey
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