pediculous

Adjective

pedicular (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to lice.
   • We proceed—(at a tortoise or pedicular Crawl, you will say—but believe me, dear Boy! there is no other way of attaining a clear and productive Insight […] [)]1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Hartley Coleridge in H. J. Jackson (ed.), Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Letters, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987, p. 226
2. Caused by lice.
   • And as for my Body, this shape which I now bear is more healthfull farr and neat, for now I am not subject to breed Lice and other Vermin; And whereas this pedicular disease, with a nomberlesse sort of other maladies and distempers, attend Mankind, ther’s but one onely disease that our Species is...1660, James Howell, Thērologia, The Parly of Beasts, London: William Palmer, Section 2, p. 26
3. Having the lousy distemper, phthiriasis; infested with lice.
   • When a philosopher condescends to regard commonplace man, he assumes much the attitude that a dandy might if brought, perforce, into contact with some one suspected of being pedicular.1923, Heinrich E. Buchholz, chapter 14, in Of What Use Are Common People? A Study in Democracy, Baltimore: Warwick & York, pages 196–197
4. Relating to a stem or pedicle.