louseling
nounEtymology From louse + -ling.
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Rare A small or immature louse; nymph
- He that, without a microscope, could tell On one small louse how many licelings dwell!1791, A Second Heroic Epistle to Joseph Priestley, page 4:
- The eggs of the head louse are glued to hairs just above the scalp, where they remain even after the enclosed louseling has left.2012, Roger M. Knutson, Furtive Fauna: A Field Guide to the Creatures Who Live on You:
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- They survive and they have louselings which are tough too.2012, Richard Jones, Justine Crow, The Little Book of Nits, page 53: