Louse vs Mallophagan - What's the difference?
louse | mallophagan |
A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Phthiraptera .
(colloquial, dated, not usually used in plural form) A contemptible person; one who has recently taken an action considered deceitful or indirectly harmful.
To remove lice from the body of a person or animal; to delouse.
A chewing louse, any louse of the now obsolete suborder Mallophaga, any true louse that is not a sucking louse.
* 1985 , Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr., Ornithology in Laboratory and Field ,
* 1993 , May Berenbaum, Ninety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers ,
* 2005 , M. J. Lehane, The Biology of Blood-Sucking in Insects ,
As nouns the difference between louse and mallophagan
is that louse is a small parasitic wingless insect of the order phthiraptera while mallophagan is a chewing louse, any louse of the now obsolete suborder mallophaga, any true louse that is not a sucking louse.As a verb louse
is to remove lice from the body of a person or animal; to delouse.louse
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(wikipedia louse)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (insect) (North America) cootie * (contemptible person) maggot, wormDerived terms
* body louse * booklouse * crab louse * head louse * louser * lousy * pubic louse * sea louse * three skips of a louseVerb
(lous)Synonyms
* delousemallophagan
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Noun
(en noun)page 116,
- As a rule, mallophagans are host-specific, each species being restricted and adapted to a single bird species or groups of closely related bird species.
page 226,
- Most are associated with birds (although at least one hundred species deign to dine on mammalian body tissues); the majority of mallophagans' on birds (and hence the majority of ' mallophagans in general) have a pair of well-developed claws on the tips of their tarsi.
page 8,
- While these mouthparts are not primarily designed to pierce skin some mallophagans' do feed on blood. ''Menacanthus stramineus'', a present-day ' mallophagan , feeds at the base of feathers or on the skin of the chicken.
