noun
wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
• Syn: ↑louse
• Hypernyms: ↑insect
• Hyponyms:
↑common louse, ↑Pediculus humanus, ↑head louse, ↑Pediculus capitis, ↑body louse, ↑cootie, ↑Pediculus corporis, ↑crab louse, ↑pubic louse, ↑crab, ↑Phthirius pubis
• Member Holonyms: ↑Anoplura, ↑order Anoplura
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noun : a louse of the order Anoplura characterized by possession of mouthparts adapted to sucking the body fluids of the host — compare bird louse
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sucking louse noun
A bloodsucking wingless insect of the order Anoplura
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Main Entry: ↑suck
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sucking louse,
any one of an order of wingless, bloodsucking lice that are parasitic on mammals and transmit many diseases, such as typhus fever.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.