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Louse

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 (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.

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Aphid 76% connected

One of the genus Aphis; an aphidian.

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Crab 76% connected

One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen i…

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Psylla 76% connected

Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family Psyllidae.

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Homopteran 76% connected

An homopter.

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Insect 76% connected

One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.

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Lousy 74% connected

Infested with lice.

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Lousy 74% connected

Infested with lice.

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Insect 92% connected

One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.

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Worm 92% connected

A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.

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Actinozoan noun · 86% connection

sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed

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Anapsid noun · 86% connection

primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles

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Anapsid reptile noun · 86% connection

primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles

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Arachnid noun · 86% connection

air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs

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Arachnoid noun · 86% connection

air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs

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Arthropod noun · 86% connection

invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin

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Asian horseshoe crab noun · 86% connection

horseshoe crab of the coast of eastern Asia

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Centipede noun · 86% connection

chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being…

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Class Merostomata noun · 86% connection

used in some classifications; includes the orders Xiphosura and Eurypterida

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Cnidarian noun · 86% connection

radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp a…

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Coelenterate noun · 86% connection

radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp a…

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Diapsid noun · 86% connection

reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye

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Diapsid reptile noun · 86% connection

reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye

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Diapsida noun · 86% connection

used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archos…

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Eurypterid noun · 86% connection

large extinct scorpion-like arthropod considered related to horseshoe crabs

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Eutherian noun · 86% connection

mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

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Eutherian mammal noun · 86% connection

mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

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False scorpion noun · 86% connection

small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion

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Aphaniptera n. pl. · 78% connection

A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea.

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Aphis noun · 78% connection

A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidae, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.

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Astragalus noun · 78% connection

A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeae, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch…

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Branchiura n. pl. · 78% connection

A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).

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Chalcid fly unknown · 78% connection

One of a numerous family of hymenopterous insects (Chalcididae. Many are gallflies, others are parasitic on insects.

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Deathwatch noun · 78% connection

minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers

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Diggers n. pl. · 78% connection

A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.

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Diptera n. pl. · 78% connection

An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctori…

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Flea noun · 78% connection

any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap

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Hesperornis noun · 78% connection

A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and…

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Heterogynous adjective · 78% connection

Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wing…

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Leech noun · 78% connection

Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in…

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