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AnopluraenUK ThesaurusNoun | 1. | Anoplura - sucking lice order Anopluraanimal order - the order of animalsclass Hexapoda, class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal specieslouse, sucking louse - wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animalsfamily Pediculidae, Pediculidae - true lice: human lice and related formsfamily Phthiriidae, Phthiriidae - crab lice |
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Anoplura[‚an·ə′plu̇r·ə] (invertebrate zoology) The sucking lice, a small group of mammalian ectoparasites usually considered to constitute an order in the class Insecta. AnopluraenUK
An·o·plu·ra (an'ō-plū'ră), The order of insects that includes the bloodsucking lice of mammals, with some 450 species arranged in six families, of which four contain species of medical or veterinary importance: Haematopinus, Linognathus, and Solenopotes of domestic mammals, and the human-sucking louse Pediculus humanus. [G. anoplos, unarmed, + oura, tail] Anoplura (an?o-ploor'a) [Gr. anoplos, unarmed + Gr. oura, tail] Blood-feeding ectoparasites of mammals.. They can cause localised skin irritations and are vectors of several blood-borne diseases, e.g., trench fever, epidemic typhus, epidemic relapsing fever. See: louse; pediculosisAnopluraenUK
Synonyms for Anopluranoun sucking liceSynonymsRelated Words- animal order
- class Hexapoda
- class Insecta
- Hexapoda
- Insecta
- louse
- sucking louse
- family Pediculidae
- Pediculidae
- family Phthiriidae
- Phthiriidae
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