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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Either of two species of true lice (family Pediculidæ) which affect cattle: Hæmatopinus eurysternus, known as the short-nosed ox-louse, and H. vituli, the long-nosed ox-louse. See cattle-louse.

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