Anoplura — noun sucking lice • Syn: ↑order Anoplura • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Insecta, ↑class Insecta, ↑Hexapoda, ↑class Hexapoda … Useful english dictionary
Anoplura — The order of insects that includes the bloodsucking lice of mammals, with some 450 species arranged in 6 families, of which 4 contain species of medical or veterinary importance: Haematopinus, Linognathus, and Solenopotes of domestic mammals, and … Medical dictionary
animal order — noun the order of animals • Hypernyms: ↑order • Hyponyms: ↑Eubacteriales, ↑order Eubacteriales, ↑Pseudomonadales, ↑order Pseudomonadales, ↑Rickettsiales, ↑order … Useful english dictionary
louse — n. /lows/; v. /lows, lowz/, n., pl. lice /luys/ for 1 3, louses for 4, v., loused, lousing. n. 1. any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse), parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking,… … Universalium
insect — insectival /in sek tuy veuhl/, adj. /in sekt/, n. 1. any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two… … Universalium
sucking louse — noun wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm blooded animals • Syn: ↑louse • Derivationally related forms: ↑lousy (for: ↑louse) • Hypernyms: ↑insect … Useful english dictionary
louse — Common name for members of the ectoparasitic insect orders Anoplura (sucking lice) and Mallophaga (biting lice). Important species are Felicola subrostrata (cat l.), Goniocotes gallinae (fluff l.), Goniodes dissimilis (brown chicken l.),… … Medical dictionary
class Hexapoda — noun insects; about five sixths of all known animal species • Syn: ↑Insecta, ↑class Insecta, ↑Hexapoda • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑Arthropoda, ↑phylum Arthropoda … Useful english dictionary
class Insecta — noun insects; about five sixths of all known animal species • Syn: ↑Insecta, ↑Hexapoda, ↑class Hexapoda • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑Arthropoda, ↑phylum Arthropoda … Useful english dictionary
Hexapoda — noun insects; about five sixths of all known animal species • Syn: ↑Insecta, ↑class Insecta, ↑class Hexapoda • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑Arthropoda, ↑phylum Arth … Useful english dictionary