book louse

Questions about book louse

What does book louse mean?

book louse means "minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers".

What is another word for book louse?

Close synonyms include booklouse, deathwatch, Liposcelis divinatorius. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is book louse a common word?

book louse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.