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lice: noun
louse: noun

lice [laɪs] N pl

See also louse

louse [laʊs] N

1. louse lice (insect):

piolho m

2. louse -es inf (person):

canalha mf

louse [laʊs] N

1. louse lice (insect):

piolho m

2. louse -es inf (person):

canalha mf

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Head lice are grey in general, but their precise color varies according to the environment in which they were raised. en.wikipedia.org

Kim goes home and after finding out how pubic lice can be passed on, she realises she herself has them. en.wikipedia.org

It involved serving as a source of blood for lice, a typhus vector, which could then be used to develop vaccines against the disease. en.wikipedia.org

Many lice attach their eggs to their host's hair with specialized saliva; the saliva/hair bond is very difficult to sever without specialized products. en.wikipedia.org

There are 50 families of bark lice with over 200 genera. en.wikipedia.org

If no living lice are found, the treatment was successful, even if nits/eggs are visible on the hair. en.wikipedia.org

He also described two families, four subfamilies, 53 genera and subgenera, and approximately 866 species and subspecies of bird lice throughout his career. en.wikipedia.org

The sieve bottom allowed the lice to stick out their heads and feed on the human flesh. en.wikipedia.org

It causes borreliosis, a zoonotic, vector-borne disease transmitted primarily by ticks and some by lice, depending on the species. en.wikipedia.org

Living lice eggs tend to be pale white. en.wikipedia.org

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