单词 | body louse |
释义 | > as lemmasbody louse body louse n. a louse of the subspecies Pediculus humanus humanus (family Pediculidae), which infests the human body and clothing, especially where hygiene is poor, and can transmit several diseases; cf. head louse n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > group Anoplura > order Siphunculata > member of genus Pediculus (louse) > pediculus corporis (body-louse) body louse1545 crumb1863 typhus louse1910 coot1915 cootie1917 pants rabbits1917 1545 J. Bale Mysterye Inyquyte P. Pantolabus f. 64 Now steppeth forth Pantolabus as bragge a bodye lowse and as one depelye lerned in þe scole of scornefulnesse. a1652 R. Brome Court Begger Epil. sig. S8v, in Five New Playes (1653) As briske as a Body-lowse in a new Pasture. 1787 C. Taylor Surv. Nature II. 270 Linnæus is of opinion, that the head and the body louse differ in no respect from each other. They seldom attack any in our climate but such as from sloth or famine invite their company. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. vi. i. 294 The Body (or Clothes) Louse..was for a long time confounded with the former [sc. the Head Louse]. 1940 W. H. Holmes Bacillary & Rickettsial Infections V. 76 They discovered that trench fever is a true rickettsial disease transmitted by the body louse. 2001 J. O'Brien At Home in Heart of Appalachia xii. 196 Everyone was infested with body lice—‘graybacks’—which bit and stung. < as lemmas |
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