INSECT vs LOUSE: NOUN
- A contemptible or powerless person.
- Any small arthropod similar to an insect including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc
- An arthropod in the class Insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.
- A powder used for the extermination of insects; esp., the powdered flowers of certain species of Pyrethrum, a genus now merged in Chrysanthemum. Called also Persian powder.
- Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
- Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
- Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
- One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See insecta.
- In zoology, any member of the class or other division of animals called Insecta; an arthropod; a condylopod; an articulated animal with articulated legs, especially one with six such legs; a hexapod. See Insecta and Hexapoda, 1.
- A small, usually winged and many-legged, invertebrate creature whose body appears to consist of several segments: a term used in popular speech without exactitude, being applied not only to flies, fleas, dragon-flies, butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, crickets, grasshoppers, roaches, beetles, bugs, lice, and other familiar creatures properly called insects, but also, improperly, to other small creatures whose structure and relations are not popularly understood, as the so-called coral insect, which is an actinozoan.
- An insignificant or contemptible person.
- Any of various other small, chiefly arthropod animals, such as spiders, centipedes, or ticks, usually having many legs. Not in scientific use.
- Any of numerous arthropod animals of the class Insecta, having an adult stage characterized by three pairs of legs and a body segmented into head, thorax, and abdomen and usually having one or two pairs of wings. Insects include the flies, crickets, mosquitoes, beetles, butterflies, and bees.
- Small air-breathing arthropod
- A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- 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 contemptible person; one who has recently taken an action considered deceitful or indirectly harmful.
- A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Phthiraptera.
- 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.
- A parasitic dipterous insect of the group Pupipara. Some of them are wingless, as the bee louse.
- Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira.
- Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See Aphid.
- 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.
- 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. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under crab, dog, etc.
- Certain mites or acarids are sometimes called lice, as the harvest-ticks, known as red-lice, the itch-mite or itch-louse, etc. For further information, see the compounded words, and also the technical names.
- Book-lice are pseudoneuropterous insects of the family Psocidæ, various species of which, as those of the genera Atropos and Clothilla, injure books.
- Plants are infested by multitudes of small plant-sucking hemipters, known as plant-lice, and formerly collectively termed Phytophthiria: as the aphids, Aphididæ, some of which are also called gall-lice; the psyllids, Psyllidæ, called flea-lice and jumping plant-lice; and the scale-insects or Coccidæ, some of which are also known as bark-lice.
- Wood-lice are the terrestrial isopods of the family Oniscidæ, also called slaters, sow-bugs, etc. These are not parasites, but some of the aquatic isopods are fish-lice, as Cymothoidæ.
- Fishes, marine mammals. crustaceans, etc., are infested by a great variety of small degraded crustaceans, collectively known as fish-lice or Ichthyophthira. Most of these belong to a class or order Epizoa or Siphonostoma, or Lernæoidea; a few are cirripeds, as Rhizocephala. Whale-lice are Cyamidæ. Carpice are Argulidæ.
- Insects have their own lice. Such are the bee-lice, or pupiparous dipterous insects of the family Braulidæ, order Diptera; and some of the lice of bats are similar dipterous insects, though wingless, of the family Nycteribiidæ. Bees, wasps, etc., are also infested by certain small parasitic heteromerous beetles in the form of lice, such as the wingless larvæ of Meloidæ, a species of which has been named Pediculus melittæ, and the whole family Stylopidæ. Insects affected by the latter are said to be stylopized. None of the foregoing lice are aquatic.
- The beaver harbors a remarkable louse, Platypsyllus castoris, a degraded clavicorn beetle, so peculiar as to have been made type of an order, Achreioptera.
- Bird-lice are parasitic insects, of several hundred species, various genera, and several families, which some authors range with the foregoing in the order Hemiptera, but most place in the Pseudoneuroptera. They are known as the order or superfamily Mallophaga. They have mandibulate or biting mouth-parts, are wingless, and of very variable forms. They are by no means confined to birds, but infest mammals as well; almost every kind of bird and beast is infested by these creatures, sometimes several species to one host, and in such multitudes as to canse disease and death. Of these, such as infest domestic quadrupeds and birds belong to the genera Trichodectes, Docophorus, Nirmus, Goniocotes, Goniodes, Lipeurus, Trinotum, Colpopocephalum, Menopon, and Gyropus.
- An insect or other small arthropod (as a crustacean) that infests other animals or plants, or an animal resembling such parasites: a name for a great variety of small creatures.
- A mean or despicable person.
- Any of numerous small, flat-bodied, wingless biting or sucking insects of the order Phthiraptera, which live as external parasites on birds and mammals, including humans. The lice are sometimes classified together with the psocids in the order Psocodea.
- Wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds
INSECT vs LOUSE: ADJECTIVE
- Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
- Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
- N/A
INSECT vs LOUSE: VERB
- N/A
- To remove lice from the body of a person or animal; to delouse.
INSECT vs LOUSE: TRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To bungle. Often used with up.
INSECT vs LOUSE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of an insect or insects: as, insect transformations; insect architecture.
- Like an insect in any respect; small; mean; contemptible.
- To seek or catch insects, as a bird does.
- Mostly parasitic on birds
- To clean from lice.
- A Middle English variant of loose.
INSECT vs LOUSE: RELATED WORDS
- Biochem, Hexapod, Photoperiodism, Repellants, Bug, Cockroach, Entomology, Infestation, Arthropod, Mosquito, Pest, Beetle, Dirt ball, Louse, Worm
- Vixen, Schmuck, Hussy, Scumbag, Nit, Whore, Bug, Parasite, Plant louse, Dirt ball, Biting louse, Sucking louse, Bird louse, Worm, Insect
INSECT vs LOUSE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Tent caterpillar, Chinch bug, Gypsy moth, Physiol, Hexapod, Bug, Cockroach, Entomology, Infestation, Arthropod, Mosquito, Pest, Beetle, Louse, Worm
- Borne, Creep, Jerk, Pig, Tramp, Vixen, Hussy, Scumbag, Whore, Bug, Parasite, Plant louse, Bird louse, Worm, Insect
INSECT vs LOUSE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
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- All these fleas and the louse can carry plague.
- Staining method for removing louse nits from hair.
- Singular: man, woman, tooth, goose, mouse, louse, foot.
- Ilot lmocre tiaii six nods froiii tile louse.
- How long do louse eggs take to hatch?
- And boy can lice louse up your day.
- In fact, you may never see a louse.
- The human body louse and human head louse are different subspecies of the same species.
- The ___________ louse is the most common louse species found on humans.
- The most common in the US being: head louse, body louse, shaft louse and wing louse.
INSECT vs LOUSE: QUESTIONS
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