| 单词 | louse |
| 释义 | louse (once / 2063 pages) n A louse is a tiny insect that lives on the skin of animals and people. If you find a louse in your hair, you'll have to treat your scalp to get rid of any of its friends that might still be lurking there. Since they tend to travel in groups, the plural form of louse, lice, is much more common than the singular. Lice are small parasites that live on skin cells, blood, or other tiny bits of some host animal. If you're the host animal, you'll probably have an itchy head, and anyone who borrows your pillow or wears your hat will likely get lice too. A louse, informally, is also "an obnoxious person." WORD FAMILYlouse: delouse, lice, louses, lousy+/delouse: deloused, delouses, delousing/lousy: lousier, lousiest, lousiness USAGE EXAMPLESShepherd teaches lice removal in Florida with a weeklong hands-on training, Lynch said. Washington Times(Dec 10, 2016) The youngsters were found hungry, infested with lice and ill-clothed, he said. Washington Times(Dec 05, 2016) But there was good news for groomers too - because their habit was found to protect against pubic lice. BBC(Dec 05, 2016) 1n wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals Syn|Hypo|Hyper sucking louse Pediculus humanus, common louse head or body louse Pediculus capitis, head louseinfests the head and body of humans Pediculus corporis, body louse, cootiea parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings Phthirius pubis, crab, crab louse, pubic lousea louse that infests the pubic region of the human body insect small air-breathing arthropod 2n wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds Syn|Hypo|Hyper bird louse, biting louse Menopon gallinae, Menopon palladum, chicken louse, shaft louse a louse parasitic on poultry insect small air-breathing arthropod 3n any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants Syn|Hypo|Hyper plant louse aphid any of various small plant-sucking insects adelgidany of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers Phylloxera vitifoleae, grape louse, grape phylloxeradestructive to various grape plants jumping plant louse, psylla, psyllidsmall active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices oak blighta black plant louse that lives on oaks and dogwoods Aphis pomi, apple aphid, green apple aphidbright green aphid; feeds on and causes curling of apple leaves Aphis fabae, bean aphid, blackflyblackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets greenflygreenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants ant cowexcretes a honeylike substance eaten by ants woolly aphid, woolly plant lousesecretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads Adelges piceae, balsam woolly aphida variety of adelgid Adelges abietis, spruce gall aphida variety of adelgid Pineus pinifoliae, pine leaf aphida variety of adelgid woolly adelgidan insect that feeds on hemlocks; its egg sacs are small fuzzy white balls like artificial snow on a Christmas tree homopteran, homopterous insect insects having membranous forewings and hind wings 4n a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect Syn|Hyper dirt ball, insect, worm disagreeable person, unpleasant person a person who is not pleasant or agreeable |
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