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• His acarophobia was obvious from his reaction when I told him he had lice.From the entry acarophobia
• Lice, fleas, ticks, and mites are widely spread parasites.From the entry parasite
• The area was crawling with all sorts of vermin: fleas, lice, mice, and rats to name a few. Thus, we felt as if vermin were crawling over us.From the entry vermin
• Only one commercial parasite vaccine is available against an ecoparasite for sea lice.2024, Baskaralingam Vaseeharan, Palmy Jesudhasan, Vaccines in Aquaculture, page 246. From the entry ecoparasite
• Tae-Wol had witnessed lice furiously scrambling, trying to cling to this patient's stubbly pubic growth.2021 February 2, Ina Park, Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs, Flatiron Books, →ISBN. From the entry groomer
• Night time is best and big baits are needed to combat lice and other menaces like crabs.2008, Rex Hunt, Fishing Guide to Melbourne and Surrounds, page 77. From the entry gummy shark
• That paper-doll mother was still mirating at her own flesh and blood having lice.1999, Reynolds Price, A Singular Family: Rosacoke and Her Kin, →ISBN, page 312. From the entry mirate
• War would be a picnic if it wasn't for lice and dysentery.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC. From the entry where'm
• A sitting hen kept free from lice will mean liceless chicks.1916, Extension Bulletin, page 15. From the entry liceless
• You can tell a ripe Délice by its surface.2013, Tenaya Darlington, Di Bruno Bros. House of Cheese: A Guide to Wedges, Recipes, and Pairings, Running Press, →ISBN. From the entry cheesecakey
• Crablike whale lice dig deeply into sores and cuts.1971 Mar, National Geographic, page 411. From the entry whale louse
• Lice are generated out of the flesh of animals.1910, Aristotle, translated by D.W. Thompson, The Works of Aristotle: Historia animalium. From the entry bug
• Nasty little green things that look like lice will probably appear — beastly, soft, smushy aphids they are.1910, Grace Tabor, Gardner Callahan Teall, The Garden Primer. From the entry smushy
• Lice have traditionally been divided into chewing lice (Mallophaga) and sucking lice (Anoplura) based on the structure of their mouthparts and the resulting feeding strategy.2013, Timothy M. Goater, Cameron P. Goater, Gerald W. Esch, Parasitism: The Diversity and Ecology of Animal Parasites, page 313. From the entry chewing louse
• Worm chickens once every three months and, if an occasional lice problem occurs, spray the inside of the chook shed with Coopex.2005, Don Burke, The Complete Burke′s Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets, page 683. From the entry chook
• Hairy red spiders give spiderlets lice.1969, Madeleine L’Engle, “The Roc”, in Lines Scribbled on an Envelope and Other Poems, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, →LCCN…. From the entry spiderlet
• An examination of the taggiest of the ewes showed a heavy infestation of red-headed lice to be the cause of the unrest.1921, Research Bulletin, numbers 347-359, page 66. From the entry taggy
• As these ewes had been dipped 2 years before, the lice probably had been introduced into the flock by an imported ram.1921, Research Bulletin, numbers 347-359, page 66. From the entry taggy
• Trench foot was a nasty and potentially fatal foot disease commonly caused by these conditions, in which chats or body lice were the bane of all.2013, Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry chat
• For instance, the psyllids, also known as jumping plant lice, contain compartments in their cells that can be recognized as Proteobacteria from the DNA they contain.2011, Trudy M. Wassenaar, Bacteria: The Benign, the Bad, and the Beautiful, page 40. From the entry jumping plant louse
• Many of the chewing lice are highly host specific, but a few may occur on a variety of not more than a half dozen related host species.1996, Gary A. Dunn, Insects of the Great Lakes Region, page 105. From the entry ectoparasite
• Chewing lice are unable to survive for more than a day or two off the host and their dispersal is through direct contact of host animals.1996, Gary A. Dunn, Insects of the Great Lakes Region, page 105. From the entry ectoparasite
• The lice had eaten their way through her rotting flesh, leaving a skeleton double-row of teeth, and of a once proud neck, a knotful of tendons and veins.1977, Ka-tzetnik, Sunrise over hell, page 200. From the entry knotful
• It was an old, old woman, an Ancient Marineress of the desert, and she was cracking lice in the head of a small boy wrapped in a goatskin.1956 August, “Cave-Paintings and Camels”, in Blackwood’s Magazine, volume 280, number 1690, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons…. From the entry ancient marineress
• The doctor was issuing my non-vermin certificate, a certificate declaring me free of lice and fleas, and at that moment the first flea fell upon me.1920 November 6, Alfons Goldschmidt, “Moscow in 1920”, in Soviet Russia: Official Organ of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau, volume…. From the entry liceless
• There are cases where more than one species of chewing louse may infest the same host species and the lice may prefer living on specific parts of the host's body.2003, William S. Romoser, “Chapter 3: Introduction to ArthropodsSystematis, Behavior and Ecology”, in B.F. Eldridge, J.D. Edman, editors…. From the entry chewing louse
• In the capital of the Reich, in the city of the “illustrious Führer” of all places, in the largest prison in Germany, everything was filthy, bug-ridden, and filled with lice.2000, Hester Baer, transl., The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women, Wayne State University Press…. From the entry bug-ridden

Meaning of lice

1. noun Louse.

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How do you use lice in a sentence?

Lice is used as a noun. For example: “His acarophobia was obvious from his reaction when I told him he had lice.”

What is a short sentence with lice?

“Hairy red spiders give spiderlets lice.”

What does lice mean?

Lice means louse.