anopluran
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any louse of the suborder Anoplura, a sucking louse.
Example Sentences
- "Unlike the masticating mallophagans, anoplurans have mouthparts modified for piercing epidermal tissues and sucking up blood."
- "Ungulates and squirrels (the latter in the family Sciuridae) are particularly heavily parasitized by anoplurans, and several small or even monotypic families of anoplurans parasitize phylogenetically isolated mammalian groups."
- "The next simplest case involves one anopluran and one mallophagan species per host species (e.g., Haematopinus asini plus Domalinia equi on Equus caballus and Linognathus setosus plus Trichodectes canis on Canis familiaris). Cattle (Bos taurus) present a more complex case; they are infested by three anoplurans and one mallophagan, and attention to generic morphologic characteristics is required for their differentiation."
Etymology
Anoplura + -n
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: n