Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
booklouse .
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Examples
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Less than a half an hour later, it turned out that I was wrong once again; the creatures from the garage were instead identified as psocopterans also called psocids, booklice or barklice.
Is it an isopteran? Is it a zorapteran? It's a psocopteran! AYDIN 2008
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The term "lice" in the names of "booklice" and "barklice" is somewhat misleading, for none of these insects is parasitic, and relatively few are louselike in appearance.
Is it an isopteran? Is it a zorapteran? It's a psocopteran! AYDIN 2008
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Less than a half an hour later, it turned out that I was wrong once again; the creatures from the garage were instead identified as psocopterans also called psocids, booklice or barklice.
Archive 2008-05-01 AYDIN 2008
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The term "lice" in the names of "booklice" and "barklice" is somewhat misleading, for none of these insects is parasitic, and relatively few are louselike in appearance.
Archive 2008-05-01 AYDIN 2008
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* It takes some trawling through the book to discover that by "mites" in insect collections, Browne probably means "booklice", i.e. Psocoptera.
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These insects and pests include termites, roaches, mice, booklice and wood boarers etc.
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