pubic louse

noun

1. louse1

Example Sentences

A single chair upholstered in deep-red velvet carried Gilbert & George’s coat of arms — a pubic louse — picked out in gold.

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In one case, a patient produced a pubic louse, which can infest, but as WebMD pointed out, is incapable of causing "head-to-toe itching."

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The human pubic louse, on the other hand, is related to the gorilla louse, from which it parted company some 13 million years ago.

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One of those, the pubic louse, appears to trace back to contact between the Homo lineage and the gorilla, but more on that in a bit.

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