sea louse sea slater | marine isopod crustacean |
whale louse | amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans |
fish louse | a kind of copepod |
louse sucking louse | wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals |
common louse Pediculus humanus | head or body louse |
head louse Pediculus capitis | infests the head and body of humans |
body louse cootie Pediculus corporis | a parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings |
crab louse pubic louse crab Phthirius pubis | a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body |
bird louse biting louse louse | wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting, mostly parasitic on birds |
chicken louse shaft louse Menopon palladum Menopon gallinae | a louse parasitic on poultry |
louse fly hippoboscid | bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals |
plant louse louse | any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants |
woolly aphid woolly plant louse | secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads |
grape louse grape phylloxera Phylloxera vitifoleae | destructive to various grape plants |
jumping plant louse psylla psyllid | small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping, feeds on plant juices |
bark-louse bark louse | any of several insects living on the bark of plants |
booklouse book louse deathwatch Liposcelis divinatorius | minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers |
onion thrips onion louse Thrips tobaci | injurious to onion plants and sometimes tobacco |
anchovy pear river pear | West Indian fruit resembling the mango, often pickled |
avocado alligator pear avocado pear aguacate | a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed |
pear | sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties |
bartlett bartlett pear | juicy yellow pear |
seckel seckel pear | small yellowish- to reddish-brown pear |
prickly pear | round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti |
worm louse insect dirt ball | a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect |
prickly pear prickly pear cactus | cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species, often used as food for stock |
balsam pear Momordica charantia | tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit |
native pear woody pear Xylomelum pyriforme | tree bearing pear-shaped fruit with a thick woody epicarp |
anchovy pear anchovy pear tree Grias cauliflora | West Indian tree bearing edible fruit resembling mango |
blackthorn pear haw pear hawthorn Crataegus calpodendron Crataegus tomentosa | erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries |
pear pear tree Pyrus communis | Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit, widely cultivated in many varieties |
fire blight pear blight | a disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees |
botch bodge bumble fumble botch up muff blow flub screw up ball up spoil muck up bungle fluff bollix bollix up bollocks bollocks up bobble mishandle louse up foul up mess up fuck up eddbbba | make a mess of, destroy or ruin, I botched the dinner and we had to eat out, the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement |
orotund rotund round pear-shaped | (of sounds) full and rich, orotund tones, the rotund and reverberating phrase, pear-shaped vowels |
pear-shaped | having a round shape tapered at one end |