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from The Century Dictionary.

  • An aberrant order of degraded parasitic hemipterous insects, or lice: synonymous with Mallophaga and Pediculina in some uses of these terms.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of insects which includes the lice.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A taxonomic suborder within the order Phthiraptera — the sucking lice.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun sucking lice

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