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Definição e significado de louse
Definição
louse (n.)
1.wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
2.wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds
3.any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
4.a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
Louse (n.)
1.(MeSH)A general name for small, wingless, parasitic insects, previously of the order Phthiraptera. Though exact taxonomy is still controversial, they can be grouped in the orders ANOPLURA (sucking lice), MALLOPHAGA (biting lice), and Rhynchophthirina (elephant-lice).
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Merriam Webster
LouseLouse (lous), n.; pl. Lice (līs). [OE. lous, AS. lūs, pl. lȳs; akin to D. luis, G. laus, OHG. lūs, Icel. lūs, Sw. lus, Dan. luus; perh. so named because it is destructive, and akin to E. lose, loose.] (Zoöl.)
1. 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.
2. Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga.
3. Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See Aphid.
4. Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira.
☞ The term is also applied to various other parasites; as, the whale louse, beelouse, horse louse.
Louse fly (Zoöl.), a parasitic dipterous insect of the group Pupipara. Some of them are wingless, as the bee louse. -- Louse mite (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of mites which infest mammals and birds, clinging to the hair and feathers like lice. They belong to Myobia, Dermaleichus, Mycoptes, and several other genera.
LouseLouse (louz), v. t. To clean from lice. “You sat and loused him.” Swift.
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Louse (n.) (MeSH)
Lice (MeSH), Phthiraptera (MeSH), Rhyncophthirina (MeSH)
louse (n.)
bird louse, biting louse, cunt, dirt ball, head louse, insect, miscreant, plant louse, rat, riffraff, skunk, sucking louse, swine, tick, worm, cad (old, pejorative), sod (coarse, spéc. anglais britannique)
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⇨ Body Louse • Body-louse infestation • Crab Louse • Epidemic (louse-borne) typhus • Epidemic louse-borne typhus fever due to Rickettsia prowazekii • Head Louse • Head-louse infestation • Infestation by crab-louse • Louse, Plant • Louse-borne relapsing fever • Plant Louse • Salmon Louse • Skatta Tick Flea Louse Powder • Sucking Louse • Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne • bark louse • bark-louse • bird louse • biting louse • body louse • book louse • chicken louse • common louse • crab louse • fish louse • grape louse • head louse • jumping plant louse • louse fly • louse up • onion louse • plant louse • pubic louse • sea louse • shaft louse • sucking louse • vine louse • whale louse • wood louse • woolly plant louse
⇨ Bee louse • Bird louse • Bird-louse • Body louse • Carp Louse • Chewing louse • Crab louse • Dance Hall at Louse Point • Epidemic louse-borne typhus • Fish Louse • Gill louse • Head louse • Head louse infestation • Head-louse infestation • Jumping plant louse • Louse (disambiguation) • Louse River • Louse on 92nd Street • Salmon louse • Stone louse • Sucking louse • The Fall of the Louse of Usher • The Great Louse Detective • To a Louse • Tongue louse • Whale louse • Wood Louse • Wood-Louse
Dicionario analógico
louse (n.)
psocid[ClasseTaxo.]
louse (n.)
louse (n.)
homopteran, homopterous insect[Hyper.]
lousy[Dérivé]
louse (n.)
personne méchante (fr)[Classe]
enfoiré (fr)[CeQuiEst~]
louse (v.)
come to nought, fail, go wrong, miscarry - be bad for, cause damage, cause damage to, damage, deteriorate, do damage, do harm, harm, impair, injure, prejudice, put at a disadvantage, vitiate[Hyper.]
bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boob, boo-boo, botch, botched job, botch-up, bungle, bungled work, cock-up, eyewash, flub, foul-up, fuckup, gaffe, howler, pratfall, shoddy work, sloppy work - balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up - fluff - screwup - spoil, spoilage, spoiling - blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler[Dérivé]
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