louse
Noun
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Wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals (synset 102186509)
hypernym: insect - small air-breathing arthropodhyponym:
- 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
member meronym: anoplura, order anoplura - sucking licesynonym: sucking louse -
A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect (synset 110811668)
hypernym: disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
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Any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants (synset 102254427)
hypernym: homopteran, homopterous insect - insects having membranous forewings and hind wingshyponym:
- aphid - any of various small plant-sucking insects
- adelgid - any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers
- grape louse, grape phylloxera, phylloxera vitifoleae - destructive to various grape plants
- jumping plant louse, psylla, psyllid - small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices
- oak blight - a black plant louse that lives on oaks and dogwoods
synonym: plant louse -
Wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting;
Mostly parasitic on birds (synset 102188133)hypernym: insect - small air-breathing arthropodhyponym: chicken louse, menopon gallinae, menopon palladum, shaft louse - a louse parasitic on poultrymember meronym: mallophaga, order mallophaga - biting licesynonym: bird louse, biting louse
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