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bark lice

bark lice is the plural of bark louse.

Meaning of bark louse

Noun

bark louse (plural bark lice)

  1. (obsolete) Any insect of the family Coccidae, that infest the bark of trees and vines.
    • Housed plants are considerably injured by an oval bark-louse, the Coccus Hesperidum of Linnæus, which has been introduced from abroad.1833 January 20, The New England Farmer and Horticultural Journal, volume 11, page 226
  2. Any insect of the order Psocoptera, that live on or near trees and feed on algae and lichen.
    • Another group of insects that tend to be very secretive in their habits and were very well represented in the ancient forest are the bark lice, or psocids.⁶⁸ Bark lice (90) are usually solitary, but sometimes the adults and nymphs live together under webs spun out of silk emitted from head glands....1999, George O. Poinar, Roberta Poinar, The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World, page 84
    Synonyms:
    bark fly, psocid

Questions about bark lice

What is bark lice the plural of?
Bark lice is the plural of bark louse.

Words near bark lice in the dictionary

  1. bark bread
  2. bark breads
  3. bark collar
  4. bark collars
  5. bark dust
  6. bark lice
  7. bark louse
  8. bark mill
  9. bark mills
  10. bark mitzvah
  11. bark mitzvahs

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