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Louse (J.A.L. Cooke/Oxford Scientific Films)

Louse, common name for several species of small, wingless insects. Three types of true, or sucking, lice infest humans: the crab louse, a broad,...

Parasites, including lice

Parasites, including lice (Sinclair Stammers/Photo Researchers, Inc.)

Parasite, organism that lives in or on a second organism, called a host, usually causing it some harm. A parasite is generally smaller than the host...

Typhus, disease carried by lice

Typhus, disease carried by lice ( The Nobel Foundation)

Also called European, or classic, typhus, this is the most virulent of the three diseases and has occurred in widespread epidemics during wartime or...

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- parasitic insect: a small wingless insect that lives as a parasite on humans and other animals. There are sucking lice, e.g. head and body lice, and biting lice, e.g. bird lice.
- small invertebrate animal: a small invertebrate animal, e.g. a wood louse
- offensive term: an offensive term that...

Translations for "louse" English-Spanish

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Map of Lice (city, Turkey)

Louse: picture (J.A.L. Cooke/Oxford Scientific Films)

	Advertisement Windows Live® Search Results Louse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lice (singular: louse), (order Phthiraptera), also known as fly babies, are an order of over 3,000 species of wingless insects; three of which are classified as human disease ... louse - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Definition of louse from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. louse - Definition of louse at YourDictionary.com noun pl. lice. 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 ... See all search results in Windows Live® Search Results

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