louse : Idioms & Phrases

• noun any of several insects living on the bark of plants
  bark louse.
  

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Bark" louse`

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1. (Zoöl.) An insect of the family Coccidæ, which infests the bark of trees and vines. ✍ The wingless females assume the shape of scales. The bark louse of vine is Pulvinaria innumerabilis; that of the pear is Lecanium pyri. See Orange scale.

Webster 1913

• noun any of several insects living on the bark of plants
  bark louse.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a minute, wingless, dipterous insect (Braula cæca) parasitic on hive bees.

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• noun Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing
  beggar lice.
  
• noun any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
  beggar lice; tick trefoil.
  

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• noun Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing
  beggar lice.
  
• noun any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
  beggar lice; tick trefoil.
  

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Beg"gar's lice`

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1. (Bot.) The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.

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• noun wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds
  louse; bird louse.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a wingless insect of the group Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very numerous and mostly parasitic upon birds. Bird mite (Zoöl.), a small mite (genera Dermanyssus, Dermaleichus and allies) parasitic upon birds. The species are numerous.

Webster 1913

• noun wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds
  louse; bird louse.
  

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• noun a parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings
  Pediculus corporis; cootie.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a species of louse (Pediculus vestimenti), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See Grayback.

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• noun minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers
  Liposcelis divinatorius; booklouse; deathwatch.
  

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• (Zoöl.), one of several species of minute, wingless insects injurious to books and papers. They belong to the Pseudoneuroptera.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), a small crustacean, of the genus Argulus, parasitic on carp and allied fishes. See Branchiura.

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• (Zoöl.), any species of louse infecting cattle. There are several species. The Hæmatatopinus eurysternus and H. vituli are common species which suck blood; Trichodectes scalaris eats the hair.

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• noun a louse parasitic on poultry
  Menopon palladum; chicken louse; Menopon gallinae.
  

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• noun head or body louse
  Pediculus humanus.
  

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• noun a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
  crab louse; Phthirius pubis; crab.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a species of louse (Phthirius pubis), sometimes infesting the human body.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), a louse that infests the dog, esp. Hæmatopinus piliferus; another species is Trichodectes latus.

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• noun a kind of copepod
  

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• (Zoöl.), any crustacean parasitic on fishes, esp. the parasitic Copepoda, belonging to Caligus, Argulus, and other related genera. See Branchiura.

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Flea"-louse` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) A jumping plant louse of the family Psyllidæ, of many species. That of the pear tree is Psylla pyri.

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• noun destructive to various grape plants
  Phylloxera vitifoleae; grape phylloxera.
  

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• noun erect perennial Old World herb of dry grassy habitats
  Agrimonia eupatoria.
  

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• noun infestation of the scalp with lice
  pediculosis capitis.
  

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• noun infests the head and body of humans
  Pediculus capitis.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any of the numerous species of plant lice belonging to the family Psyllidæ, several of which are injurious to fruit trees.

Webster 1913

• noun small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices
  psyllid; psylla.
  

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• (Zoöl.), an aphid.

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• (Zoöl.), a copepod crustacean (Nicothoë astaci) parasitic on the gills of the European lobster.

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• noun bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals
  hippoboscid.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a parasitic dipterous insect of the group Pupipara. Some of them are wingless, as the bee louse.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of mites which infest mammals and birds, clinging to the hair and feathers like lice. They belong to Myobia, Dermaleichus, Mycoptes, and several other genera.

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• verb make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  muck up; foul up; blow; botch up; botch; bollix; fumble; mishandle; bollocks; bumble; ball up; bobble; bollocks up; spoil; bollix up; fuck up; fluff; flub; bodge; muff; mess up; screw up; bungle.
  
  • I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
  • the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement

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• noun injurious to onion plants and sometimes tobacco
  onion thrips; Thrips tobaci.
  

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• noun any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
  louse.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any small hemipterous insect which infests plants, especially those of the families Aphidæ and Psyllidæ; an aphid.

Webster 1913

• noun a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
  crab louse; Phthirius pubis; crab.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any plant louse, or aphid, which lives on the roots of plants, as the Phylloxera of the grapevine. See Phylloxera.

Webster 1913

• noun marine isopod crustacean
  sea slater.
  

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Sea" louse`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of Cymothoa, Livoneca, and allied genera, mostly parasites on fishes.

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Sea" wood louse`

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1. (Zoöl.) A sea slater.

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• noun a louse parasitic on poultry
  Menopon palladum; chicken louse; Menopon gallinae.
  

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• noun wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
  louse.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any aphid; a plant louse.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), the phylloxera.

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• a wood louse.

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• noun amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of degraded amphipod crustaceans belonging to the genus Cyamus, especially C. ceti. They are parasitic on various cetaceans.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), any wheat aphid.

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• (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod Crustacea belonging to Oniscus, Armadillo, and related genera. See Sow bug, under Sow, and Pill bug, under Pill. (b) Any one of several species of small, wingless, pseudoneuropterous insects of the family Psocidæ, which live in the crevices of walls and among old books and papers. Some of the species are called also book lice, and deathticks, or deathwatches.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), a plant louse (Schizoneura, ∨ Erisoma, lanigera) which is often very injurious to the apple tree. It is covered with a dense coat of white filaments somewhat resembling fine wool or cotton. In exists in two forms, one of which infests the roots, the other the branches. See Illust. under Blight.

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• noun secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads
  woolly aphid.
  

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