louse

1. Wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals (synset 102186509)
   hypernym: insect - small air-breathing arthropod
   hyponym:

   • 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 lice
   synonym: sucking louse
2. 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
   synonym: dirt ball, insect, worm
3. 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 wings
   hyponym:

   • 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
4. Wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting;
   Mostly parasitic on birds (synset 102188133)
   hypernym: insect - small air-breathing arthropod
   hyponym: chicken louse, menopon gallinae, menopon palladum, shaft louse - a louse parasitic on poultry
   member meronym: mallophaga, order mallophaga - biting lice
   synonym: bird louse, biting louse

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