pubic louse
Americannoun
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A single chair upholstered in deep-red velvet carried Gilbert & George’s coat of arms — a pubic louse — picked out in gold.
From New York Times
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."
From Time
The human pubic louse, on the other hand, is related to the gorilla louse, from which it parted company some 13 million years ago.
From New York Times
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.
From Scientific American
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