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Definitions of louse in various dictionaries:
noun - wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
noun - a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
noun - any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
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| Contemptible one |
| Screw (up) |
| No-goodnik |
| It might make you a nit-picker |
| Unsavory character |
| Real heel |
| Wingless insect |
| Despicable person |
| Cad |
| Contemptible person |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| either of two small wingless parasitic insects that live on the skin of mammals and birds: |
| a very small insect that lives on the bodies or in the hair of people and animals |
| a small insect that lives on the bodies of people and animals |
| Any of numerous small, flat-bodied, wingless biting or sucking insects of the orders Mallophaga or Anoplura, many of which are external parasites on various animals, including humans. |
| Slang A mean or despicable person. |
| Slang To bungle: loused the project louse up a deal. |
| wingless usually flattened blood-sucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals |
| any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants |
| a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect |
| wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting mostly parasitic on birds |
| Louse description |
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Louse (plural: lice) is the common name for members of the order Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless insect. 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, which are known as 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. * Humans host three species of louse, the head louse, the body louse and the pubic louse. 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 ubiquit |