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SUCKING LOUSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
Synonyms:
louse; sucking louse
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sucking louse" is a kind of...):
insect (small air-breathing arthropod)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sucking louse"):
common louse; Pediculus humanus (head or body louse)
head louse; Pediculus capitis (infests the head and body of humans)
body louse; cootie; Pediculus corporis (a parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings)
crab; crab louse; Phthirius pubis; pubic louse (a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body)
Holonyms ("sucking louse" is a member of...):
Anoplura; order Anoplura (sucking lice)
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