louse
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Victor was a louse in his first marriage and father of the year in his second.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025
The human louse is a wingless, blood-sucking parasite that lives its entire life on its host.
From Science Daily • Nov. 8, 2023
Along our evolutionary journey from monkey-like primates to bipedal apes to big-brained humans, we have had the company of an extraordinarily loyal companion: Pediculus humanus, otherwise known as the human louse.
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2023
“We can see the louse DNA reflected in our own history.”
From Science Magazine • Nov. 7, 2023
I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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