sucking louse

Questions about sucking louse

What does sucking louse mean?

sucking louse means "wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals".

What is another word for sucking louse?

Close synonyms include louse. 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 sucking louse a common word?

sucking 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.