louse
English Thesaurus
1. wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | insect, |
| definition | : | small air-breathing arthropod (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | common louse, pediculus humanus, |
| definition | : | head or body louse (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | head louse, pediculus capitis, |
| definition | : | infests the head and body of humans (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | body louse, cootie, pediculus corporis, |
| definition | : | a parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | crab, crab louse, phthirius pubis, pubic louse, |
| definition | : | a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | anoplura, order anoplura, |
| definition | : | sucking lice (noun.animal) |
2. wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | insect, |
| definition | : | small air-breathing arthropod (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | chicken louse, menopon gallinae, menopon palladum, shaft louse, |
| definition | : | a louse parasitic on poultry (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | mallophaga, order mallophaga, |
| definition | : | biting lice (noun.animal) |
3. any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | homopteran, homopterous insect, |
| definition | : | insects having membranous forewings and hind wings (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | aphid, |
| definition | : | any of various small plant-sucking insects (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | adelgid, |
| definition | : | any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | grape louse, grape phylloxera, phylloxera vitifoleae, |
| definition | : | destructive to various grape plants (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | jumping plant louse, psylla, psyllid, |
| definition | : | small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | oak blight, |
| definition | : | a black plant louse that lives on oaks and dogwoods (noun.state) |
4. a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | disagreeable person, unpleasant person, |
| definition | : | a person who is not pleasant or agreeable (noun.person) |
5. wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals (noun.animal)
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