Booklouse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various small, often wingless insects of the order Psocoptera (or Corrodentia), some species of which feed on stored flour products, paper, or bookbindings.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of the small insects who feed on bookbindings, especially those of the order Psocoptera.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. one of several species of minute, wingless insects injurious to books and papers. They belong to the Pseudoneuroptera.
  • n. a minute wingless psocopterous insect (Liposcelis divinatorius) injurious to books and papers.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A minute neuropterous insect of the family Psocidæ, distinguished by having the tarsi composed of only two or three joints, and the posterior wings smaller than the anterior.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers
  • n. minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    psocopterous insect   
    Variant
    booklice   
    Synonym
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    deathwatch   
     
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