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SUCKING LOUSE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does sucking louse mean?

• SUCKING LOUSE (noun)
The noun SUCKING LOUSE has 1 sense:

1. wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals

Familiarity information: SUCKING LOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SUCKING LOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

louse; sucking louse

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 (infests the pubic region of the human body)

Holonyms ("sucking louse" is a member of...):

Anoplura; order Anoplura (sucking lice)

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