单词 | bird louse |
释义 | > as lemmasbird louse bird louse n. any of various lice of the group Mallophaga which are parasites mainly of birds.Cf. mallophagan n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > group Anoplura > order Mallophaga > member of bird louse1806 1806 Med. Repository 2nd Hexade 4 164 Bird-lice, ricinus, one genus. 1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) iv. 120 The Mallophaga or bird-lice are chiefly avian parasites: they are much less often found on mammals. 2014 Philadelphia Inquirer 31 Dec. a3 He brought with him a collection of 6,600 bird lice, ranging in size from something as small as a grain of pepper, which might infest a tiny songbird, to a half-inch louse that lives on a hawk. < as lemmas |
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