Louse - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: louseLouse
Any one of numerous species of small wingless suctorial parasitic insects belonging to a tribe Pediculina now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals as the head louse of man Pediculus capitis the body louse Pediculus vestimenti and the crab louse Phthirius pubis and many others See Crab louse Dog louse Cattle louse etc under Crab Dog etc...
Flea louse
A jumping plant louse of the family Psyllidaelig of many species That of the pear tree is Psylla pyri...
libelous
libelous also li·bel·lous [lī-bə-ləs] adj : constituting or including libel [a magazine article] ...
Bark louse
An insect of the family Coccidaelig which infests the bark of trees and vines...
Cheslip
The wood louse...
Hippoboscidae
A natural family of winged or wingless dipterans louse flies...
VerbarLaeligmodipoda
A division of amphipod Crustacea in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs The whale louse or Cyamus and Caprella are examples...
Lice
pl of Louse...
VerbarMallophaga
An extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals and feed on the feathers and hair called also bird lice See Bird louse under Bird...
Morpion
A louse...
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