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Definitions of lice in various dictionaries:
noun - wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
noun - a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
noun - any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
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| Small suckers |
| Wingless parasites |
| Parasitic insects |
| Head infestation |
| Cause of some head-scratching |
| Dog problem |
| Some ectozoa |
| Vermin |
| Tiny parasites |
| Wingless blood-suckers |
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| Louse |
| "Cooties"; the lousiest insects of all |
| Pediculus capitis, a species of this blood-eating insect, lays its eggs on the hair of humans & other mammals |
| Unfortunately, these insects, Pediculus humanus capitis, go straight to your head |
| I don't worry about infestation by the head type of this wingless insect; in here they get claustrophobia |
| The head type of this insect, pediculus capitis, cannot survive apart from humans for more than 24 hours |
| Pharaoh could have used a pediculicidal shampoo to get rid of these in plague No. 3 |
| Chewing & sucking are the 2 main types of these insects that cement their eggs onto feathers or hair |
| The anopleura, or "sucking" these, are insects that feed only on blood |
| Napoleon's invasion of Russia was partly doomed by epidemic typhus, primarily carried by bacteria on this parasite |
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| Plural of louse. |
| plural of louse |
| pl of louse |
| Lice description |
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Louse (plural: lice) is the common name for members of the order Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless insect. Lice are obligate parasites, living externally on warm-blooded hosts which include every species of bird and mammal, except for monotremes, pangolins, and bats. Lice are vectors of diseases such as typhus. * Chewing lice live among the hairs or feathers of their host and feed on skin and debris, while sucking lice pierce the host's skin and feed on blood and other secretions. They usually spend their whole life on a single host, cementing their eggs, which are known as nits, to hairs or feathers. The eggs hatch into nymphs, which moult three times before becoming fully grown, a process that takes about four weeks. * Humans host three species of louse, the head louse, the body louse and the pubic louse. The body louse has the smallest genome of any known insect; it has been used as a model organism and has been the subject of much research. * Lice were ubiquit |