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sealouse

sealouse is the alternative form of sea louse.

Meaning of sea louse

Noun

sea louse (plural sea lice)

  1. Any copepod within the family Caligidae (order Siphonostomatoida); a kind of marine ectoparasite that feeds on the mucus, epidermal tissue and blood of fishes.
    Synonyms:
    caligid
  2. The horseshoe crab.

Forms of sealouse

pluralsealice

Questions about sealouse

What is sealouse the alternative form of?
Sealouse is the alternative form of sea louse.

Words near sealouse in the dictionary

  1. sealmaking
  2. sealock
  3. sealocked
  4. sealocks
  5. sealore
  6. sealouse
  7. sealpoint
  8. sealpoints
  9. sealpox
  10. seals
  11. seals in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sealouse (page history and authors); sea louse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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