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- Dictionarylouse/laʊs/
noun
- 1. either of two small wingless parasitic insects that live on the skin of mammals and birds.
- 2. a contemptible or unpleasant person. informal, derogatory
verb
- 1. remove lice from.
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Louse (pl.: lice) is the common name for any member of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects. Phthiraptera has variously been recognized as an order, infraorder, or a parvorder, as a result of developments in phylogenetic research. [1][2][3]
LOUSE definition: 1. a very small insect that lives on the bodies or in the hair of people and animals 2. a very…. Learn more.
: any of various small wingless usually flattened insects (orders Anoplura and Mallophaga) parasitic on warm-blooded animals. b. : a small usually sluggish arthropod (such as a biting louse) that lives on other animals or on plants and sucks their blood or juices. c. : any of several small arthropods (such as a book louse) that are not parasitic. 2
noun. any wingless bloodsucking insect of the order Anoplura: includes Pediculus capitis ( head louse ), Pediculus corporis ( body louse ), and the crab louse, all of which infest man pedicular. biting louse or bird louse.
LOUSE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Meaning of louse in English. louse. noun [ C ] us / laʊs / uk / laʊs / plural lice. Add to word list. a very small insect that lives on the bodies or in the hair of people and animals. IMNATURE/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Insect names.
A louse is a tiny insect that lives on the skin of animals and people. If you find a louse in your hair, you'll have to treat your scalp to get rid of any of its friends that might still be lurking there.
Any of an order (Anoplura) of small, flat, wingless insects with sucking mouthparts, parasitic on the skin or hair of humans and some other mammals; esp., the human body louse (Pediculus humanus corporis) and head louse (P. h. capitis)
n. 1. pl. lice (līs) Any of numerous small, flat-bodied, wingless biting or sucking insects of the order Phthiraptera, which live as external parasites on birds and mammals, including humans. The lice are sometimes classified together with the psocids in the order Psocodea. 2. pl. lous·es (lous′ĭz) Slang A mean or despicable person.
LOUSE meaning: a very small insect that lives on the bodies or in the hair of people or animals. Learn more.
noun. 1. any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse), parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse) 2.
