1) Adelgid 2) Aphid 3) Bum 4) Cootie 5) Nit 6) Psylla 7) Psyllid 8) Scoundrel 9) Stinker
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1) Adult nit 2) Asshole 3) Big nit 4) Blackguard 5) Certain parasite 6) Common parasite 7) Contemptible one 8) Contemptible person 9) Crumb 10) Crumbum 11) Despicable person 12) Dirty rat 13) Follower of book or wood 14) Former nit 15) Grown-up nit 16) Hair parasite 17) Head parasite 18) Insect 19) It might make you a nitpicker
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Louse (plural: lice) is the common name for members of over 3,000 species of wingless insects of the order Phthiraptera; three of which are classified as human disease agents. They are obligate ectoparasites of every avian and mammalian order except for monotremes (the platypus and echidnas), bats, whales, dolphins, porpoises and pangolins. ==Biol...
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• (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and ma...
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any of a group of small, wingless, parasitic insects divisible into two main groups: the Amblycera and Ischnocera, or chewing or biting lice, which ... [1 related articles]
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Origin: OE. Lous, AS. Ls, pl. Ls; akin to D. Luis, G. Laus, OHG. Ls, Icel. Ls, Sw. Lus, Dan. Luus; perh. So named because it is destructive, and akin to E. Lose, loose. ... <zoology> ... 1. Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera...
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(lous) pl. lice any of various grayish, wingless insects parasitic on birds and mammals, including humans; they are usually less than half a centimeter (one sixth of an inch) long. The order that most often attacks humans is called Anoplura (the sucking lice). The causal organisms of typhus, relapsing fever, trench...
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Louse (lous)
noun ;
plural Lice (līs). [ Middle English
lous , Anglo-Saxon
lūs , plural
lȳs ; akin to Dutch
luis , German
laus , Old High German
lūs , Icelandic
lūs , Swedish
lus , Danish
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Louse (louz)
transitive verb To clean from lice. 'You sat and
loused him.'
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Type: Term Pronunciation: lows, līs Definitions: 1. Common name for members of the ectoparasitic insect orders Anoplura (sucking lice) and Mallophaga (biting lice). Important species are Felicola subrostrata (cat louse), Goniocotes gallinae (fluff louse), Goniodes dissimilis (brown chicken louse), Haemodipsus ventricosus (rabbit louse), Lipeur...
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Louse is the common name of a genus (Pediculus) of apterous insects, parasitic on man and other animals. The common louse is furnished with a simple eye or ocellus, on each side of a distinctly differentiated head, the under surface of which bears a suctorial mouth. There is little distinction between the thorax and abdomen, but the segments of the...
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Louse is slang for to ruin or spoil.
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[
n] - wingless usually flattened blood-sucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
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noun wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
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Parasitic insect that lives on mammals. It has a flat, segmented body without wings, and a tube attached to the head, used for sucking blood from its host. (Order Anoplura.) Some lice occur on humans, including the head louse (
Pediculus capitis) and the body louse (
P. corporis), a typhus carrier. Pediculosis is...
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