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What does louses mean?
Part of speech
🔤- louses, noun, plural of louse.
WordNet
NounPlural: lice |
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| louse - wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals | ||
| sucking louse | ||
| insect small air-breathing arthropod | ||
| anoplura, order anoplura sucking lice | ||
| common louse, pediculus humanus head or body louse | ||
| head louse, pediculus capitis infests the head and body of humans | ||
| body louse, cootie, pediculus corporis a parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings | ||
| louse - any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants | ||
| plant louse | ||
| homopteran, homopterous insect insects having membranous forewings and hind wings | ||
| aphid any of various small plant-sucking insects | ||
| adelgid any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers | ||
| grape louse, grape phylloxera, phylloxera vitifoleae destructive to various grape plants | ||
| jumping plant louse, psylla, psyllid small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices | ||
| louse - wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds | ||
| bird louse, biting louse | ||
| insect small air-breathing arthropod | ||
| mallophaga, order mallophaga biting lice | ||
| louse - a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect | ||
| worm, insect, dirt ball | ||
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Wiktionary 
- louse (Noun)
A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Phthiraptera. - louse (Noun)
A contemptible person; one who has recently taken an action considered deceitful or indirectly harmful. - louse (Verb)
To remove lice from the body of a person or animal; to delouse.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- louse (n.)
Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc. - louse (n.)
Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga. - louse (n.)
Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See Aphid. - louse (n.)
Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira. - louse (v. t.)
To clean from lice.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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louse
A small wingless parasitic insect of the order Phthiraptera that lives on humans, other mammals and birds.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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louse
A gentleman's companion. He will never louse a grey head of his own; he will never live to be old.
Wikipedia 
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Lice (singular: louse), (order Phthiraptera) are an order of wingless insects. They are also known as fly babies. There are more than 3,000 different species; three are classified as human disease agents. They are obligate parasite of every avian and most mammalian orders. They are not found on Monotremes (the platypus and the echidnas or spiny anteaters) and a few eutherian orders, namely the bats (Chiroptera), whales, dolphins and porpoises (Cetacea) and pangolins (Pholidota).
Description.
Lice spend their whole life on the host. For this reasons, they have adapted, so they can keep close contact with the host. These adaptations are reflected in their size (0.5–8 mm), stout legs, and claws which are adapted to clinging tightly to hair, fur and feathers. They are also wingless and dorsoventrally flattened.
Lice feed on skin (epidermal) debris, feather parts, sebaceous secretions and blood. A louse's color varies from pale beige to dark grey; however, if feeding on blood, it may become considerably darker.
A louse's egg is commonly called a nit. Lice attach their eggs to their host's hair with specialized saliva which results in a bond that is very difficult to separate without specialized products. Living lice eggs tend to be pale white. Dead lice eggs are more yellow. Lice are very annoying and are difficult to remove, but not impossible.
Classification.
It has been suggested that the order is contained by the Troctomorpha suborder of Psocoptera.
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