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Menopon

noun

chicken lice

• Syn: ↑genus Menopon

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Mallophaga, ↑order Mallophaga

• Member Meronyms: ↑chicken louse, ↑shaft louse, ↑Menopon palladum, ↑Menopon gallinae

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\\ˈmenəˌpän\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, perhaps from meno- (II) + Greek ponos pain

: a genus of bird lice that includes the shaft louse of poultry

Useful english dictionary. 2012.