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mallophagans

mallophagans is the plural of mallophagan.

Meaning of mallophagan

Noun

mallophagan (plural mallophagans)

  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.1985, Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr., Ornithology in Laboratory and Field, page 116

Questions about mallophagans

What is mallophagans the plural of?
Mallophagans is the plural of mallophagan.

Words near mallophagans in the dictionary

  1. Mallon
  2. Mallonee
  3. Mallonees
  4. Mallons
  5. mallophagan
  6. mallophagans
  7. mallophagous
  8. Mallorca
  9. Mallorcan
  10. Mallorcans
  11. Mallorquin

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