Mallophagan

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A chewing louse, any louse of the now obsolete suborder Mallophaga, any true louse that is not a sucking louse.

    "As a rule, mallophagans are host-specific, each species being restricted and adapted to a single bird species or groups of closely related bird species."

Synonyms

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sucking louse

Example

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"As a rule, mallophagans are host-specific, each species being restricted and adapted to a single bird species or groups of closely related bird species."

Etymology

From translingual Mallophaga + -an.

Related phrases

chewing lousesucking louse

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