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Meaning of "bird louse" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BIRD LOUSE

bird louse  [bɜːd laʊs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BIRD LOUSE

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Bird louse is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BIRD LOUSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bird louse

Bird louse refers to any chewing louse of order Phthiraptera which parasitizes warm-blooded animals, especially birds. Bird lice may feed on feathers, skin, or blood. They have no wings, and their biting mouth parts distinguish them from true lice, which suck blood. Almost all domestic birds are hosts for at least one species of bird louse. Chickens and other poultry are attacked by many kinds of bird lice. Bird lice usually do not cause much harm to a bird unless it is unusually infested as in the case of birds with damaged bills which cannot preen themselves properly. In such cases,their irritation may cause the bird to damage itself by scratching. In extreme cases, the infestation may even interfere with egg production and the fattening of poultry. Unlike true lice, bird lice do not carry infectious diseases. Having coevolved with their specific host, phylogenetic relationships among bird lice are sometimes of use when trying to determine phylogenetic relationships among birds. Earlier all chewing lice were considered to form the paraphyletic order Mallophaga while the sucking lice were thought to form the order Anoplura.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BIRD LOUSE


booklouse
ˈbʊkˌlaʊs
clubhouse
ˈklʌbˌhaʊs
delouse
diːˈlaʊs
farmhouse
ˈfɑːmˌhaʊs
flouse
flaʊs
greenhouse
ˈɡriːnˌhaʊs
guesthouse
ˈɡɛstˌhaʊs
house
haʊs
Klaus
klaʊs
lighthouse
ˈlaɪtˌhaʊs
louse
laʊs
mouse
maʊs
Nicklaus
ˈnɪklaʊs
nous
naʊs
penthouse
ˈpɛntˌhaʊs
spouse
spaʊs
steakhouse
ˈsteɪkˌhaʊs
Strauss
straʊs
warehouse
ˈwɛəˌhaʊs
woodlouse
ˈwʊdˌlaʊs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BIRD LOUSE

bird brain
bird cage
bird call
bird cherry
bird colonel
bird dog
bird fancier
bird feeder
bird flu
bird food
bird nesting
bird of paradise
bird of paradise flower
bird of passage
bird of peace
bird of prey
bird pepper
bird sanctuary
bird spider
bird strike

WORDS THAT END LIKE BIRD LOUSE

biting louse
blouse
chicken louse
crab louse
Father of the House
fish louse
girl´s blouse
jalouse
jealouse
jumping plant louse
lady of the house
middy blouse
overblouse
plant louse
sucking louse
the House
the White House
Toulouse
water louse
White House

Synonyms and antonyms of bird louse in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «bird louse» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BIRD LOUSE

Find out the translation of bird louse to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bird louse from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bird louse» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

鸟虱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

piojo de pájaro
570 millions of speakers

English

bird louse
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पक्षी जूं
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

قملة الطيور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

птица вошь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pássaro piolho
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাখি লাউড
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pou oiseau
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kutu burung
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vogel Laus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

鳥のシラミ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

조류 느
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Burung louse
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rận chim
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பறவை லவ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पक्षी लाटणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kuş yemi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

uccello pidocchio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ptak wesz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

птиця воша
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

păduche pasăre
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψείρα των πτηνών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voël luis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fågel lus
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fugl lus
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bird louse

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BIRD LOUSE»

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Bird Louse
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow, 2011
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Latin American Insects and Entomology
(b) Bird louse (Para- goniocotes mirabilis, Philopteridae). (c) Oval guinea pig louse (Gyropus ovalis, Gyropidae). (d) Giant bird louse (Laemobothrion opisthocomi, Laemobothriidae). (e) Fowl louse (Menacanthus stramineus, Menoponidae).
Charles Leonard Hogue, 1993
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A Portuguese-English Dictionary
das-abelhas, bee louse (Braula cotca). das-aves, bird louse. — das- virilhas = PIOLHO-LADRO. — de-cobra, a centipede or millipede; long-winded speech. — de-galinha, chicken louse. — de-padre, (Bot.) a beggartick (Bidens pilosa).
James Lumpkin Taylor, Priscilla Clark Martin, 1970
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Tangled Trees: Phylogeny, Cospeciation, and Coevolution
A future test of this idea would be to examine a continental bird-louse fauna in the same detail as we have done here. We would predict lower levels of sorting events, as bird populations are less likely to become isolated or to produce ...
Roderic D. M. Page, 2003
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Parasitic Diseases of Wild Birds
This fossil is approximately 44 million years old, and feathers preserved in its foregut confirm that it was a bird louse. Louse diversity varies considerably among avian taxa, ranging from just one species per host, as in the case of the Ostrich ...
Carter T. Atkinson, Nancy J. Thomas, D. Bruce Hunter, 2009
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Canaries: their care and management
The larger of these, a bird louse 2 known usually as the gray louse, is an insect with a slender, elongate body and a large head armed with strong jaws. This pest feeds upon the feather structure of the bird's outer covering, and though it does ...
Alexander Wetmore, 1923
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An Introduction to Biology for Everyone
... Copyright © 2006 Kerry S. Matz - http://bugguide.net/node/view/66314/ bgimage Figure 30a: Left, an adult booklouse or bookfly. As you can see they aren't very louse-like at all when they grow up. Right, a bird louse found on a house finch.
William M. MacArthur, Mark N. Ludwigson, 2010
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Blue Grouse: Their Biology and Natural History
The bird louse (Goniodes merriamanus) may be confined to Rocky Mountain populations, but this conclusion is speculative because of limited collections of ectoparasites. A lack of records from many areas may reflect the activities of biologists ...
F. C. Zwickel, James F. Bendell, 2004
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Of bees
... 'Cambridge Natural History,' V. (1895), pp. 350-1; (3) H. J. O. Walker, ' Bird- louse Changing Hosts,' Science-Gossip (n.s.), VII. (1900), p. 191. 1901 July a. 2o8 Keis : Lincolnshire Pseudoscorpions. proceeding1, which had been inspired 104.
A.B. Herbert, A.P. Beresford, Alexander Dedekind, 1820
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Ecology and Evolution of Transmission in Feather-feeding ...
In Chapter 3, 1 explore the relevance of phoretic hitchhiking to bird-louse coevolution. Despite their similar life histories, body lice and wing lice display marked differences in coevolutionary history with their shared Columbiform hosts.
Christopher William Harbison, 2008

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BIRD LOUSE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bird louse is used in the context of the following news items.
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Galapagos hawks hand down lice like family heirlooms
Bird louse study shows how evolution sometimes repeats itself. Aug 16, 2012. Birds of a feather flock together and – according to a new ... «Phys.Org, Aug 14»
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Bird louse study shows how evolution sometimes repeats itself
Illinois Natural History Survey ornithologist Kevin Johnson and his colleagues determined the evolutionary relationships of avian feather lice. «Phys.Org, Aug 12»
3
Lice thrived before dinosaur extinction
Their study also included louse fossils that are extremely well preserved: a 44-million-year-old bird louse fossil and a 100 million-year-old book ... «Natural History Museum, Apr 11»

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