chicken louse

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   a louse parasitic on poultry

   Synonymsshaft louseMenopon palladumMenopon gallinae

   Broaderbird louse

   Part ofMenopon

Questions about chicken louse

What does chicken louse mean?

chicken louse means "a louse parasitic on poultry".

What is another word for chicken louse?

Close synonyms include shaft louse, Menopon palladum, Menopon gallinae. 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 chicken louse a common word?

chicken 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.