bird louse

English Thesaurus

1. wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	insect,
definition	:	small air-breathing arthropod (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	chicken louse, menopon gallinae, menopon palladum, shaft louse,
definition	:	a louse parasitic on poultry (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	mallophaga, order mallophaga,
definition	:	biting lice (noun.animal)

derivation	:	lousy,
definition	:	infested with lice (adj.all)

derivation	:	lousy,
definition	:	infested with lice (adj.all)