Crossword-Solution: MALLOPHAGA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mallophaga | n. pl. | An extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals, and feed on the feathers and hair; -- called also bird lice. See Bird louse, under Bird. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with MALLOPHAGA (5)
Kellogg (1913) points out that an identical species of the Mallophaga (Bird-lice) infests an Australian Cassowary and two of the South American Rheas; while two species of the same genus (Lipeurus) are common to the African Ostrich and a third kind of South American Rhea.
Corrodentia: an ordinal term meaning gnawers: net-veined or wingless: mandibulate, mouth formed for gnawing; transformation incomplete; thorax incompletely agglutinated: = Psocoptera: includes Termitidae, Psocidae and Mallophaga.
Ocular emargination: in Mallophaga, a lateral emargination of the head in which the eye is received posteriorly.
Ocular fringe: in Mallophaga, closely set small hair on posterior half of ocular emargination, sometimes extending on temporal margin.
Paunch: a crop-like accessory pouch in some Mallophaga: any pouch-like appendage of the alimentary canal.