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Noun: biting louse  bI-ting laws
  1. Wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds
    "The ornithologist carefully removed biting lice from the captured specimens";
    - bird louse, louse

Derived forms: biting lice

Type of: insect

Part of: Mallophaga, order Mallophaga