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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mallophagous insect, Lipeurus polytrapezius, common on wild and domestic turkeys.
- noun Goniodes stylifer, a bird-louse or mallophagous insect of the family Philopteridæ, which infests the domestic turkey, having the sides of the abdomen fringed with long hairs.
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