louselaʊs; laʊz
English Definitions:
louse, sucking louse (noun)
wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
worm, louse, insect, dirt ball (noun)
a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
plant louse, louse (noun)
any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
bird louse, biting louse, louse (noun)
wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds
louse (Noun)
A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Phthiraptera.
louse (Noun)
A contemptible person; one who has recently taken an action considered deceitful or indirectly harmful.
louse (Verb)
To remove lice from the body of a person or animal; to delouse.
Louse
Louse is the common name for members of over 3,000 species of wingless insects of the order Phthiraptera; three of which are classified as human disease agents. They are obligate ectoparasites of every avian and mammalian order except for monotremes, bats, whales, dolphins, porpoises and pangolins.
Louse
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.Lice are obligate parasites, living externally on warm-blooded hosts which include every species of bird and mammal, except for monotremes, pangolins, and bats. Lice are vectors of diseases such as typhus. Chewing lice live among the hairs or feathers of their host and feed on skin and debris, while sucking lice pierce the host's skin and feed on blood and other secretions. They usually spend their whole life on a single host, cementing their eggs, called nits, to hairs or feathers. The eggs hatch into nymphs, which moult three times before becoming fully grown, a process that takes about four weeks. Genetic evidence indicates that lice are a highly modified lineage of Psocoptera (now called Psocodea), commonly known as booklice, barklice or barkflies. The oldest known fossil lice are from the Paleogene, though molecular clock estimates suggest that they originated earlier, during the Cretaceous. Humans host two species of louse—the head louse and the body louse are subspecies of Pediculus humanus; and the pubic louse, Pthirus pubis. The body louse has the smallest genome of any known insect; it has been used as a model organism and has been the subject of much research. Lice were ubiquitous in human society until at least the Middle Ages. They appear in folktales, songs such as The Kilkenny Louse House, and novels such as James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. They commonly feature in the psychiatric disorder delusional parasitosis. A louse was one of the early subjects of microscopy, appearing in Robert Hooke's 1667 book, Micrographia.
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