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Noun: shaft louse
  1. A louse parasitic on poultry
    "shaft lice caused the hens to stop laying eggs";
    - chicken louse, Menopon palladum, Menopon gallinae

Derived forms: shaft lice

Type of: bird louse, biting louse, louse

Part of: genus Menopon, Menopon