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booklouse

noun

Etymology

From book + louse. So called because they feed on bookbinding glue.

  1. derived from *lewH-✻
  2. inherited from *lūs✻
  3. inherited from *lūs✻
  4. inherited from lūs
  5. inherited from lous
  6. compounded as booklouse — “book + louse”

Definitions

  1. Any of the small insects that feed on bookbindings, especially those of the order…

    Any of the small insects that feed on bookbindings, especially those of the order Psocodea.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for booklouse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA