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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any one of several pediculid or mallophagous insects which infest cattle: as, Hæmatopinus eurysternus, sometimes called short-nosed ox-louse;
  • noun Hæmatopinus vituli, sometimes called longnosed ox-louse; and
  • noun Trichodectes scalaris.

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