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ANOPLURA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sucking lice

Synonyms:

Anoplura; order Anoplura

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Anoplura" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Anoplura"):

louse; sucking louse (wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals)

family Pediculidae; Pediculidae (true lice: human lice and related forms)

family Phthiriidae; Phthiriidae (crab lice)

Holonyms ("Anoplura" is a member of...):

class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta (insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species)

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