sea-lousen.
1. A parasitic isopod crustacean of Cymothoa and allied genera; a fish-louse.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > member of family Cymothoidae
sea-louse1601
fish-louse-
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxii. viii. 442 Those creepers or insects which be called sea-lice.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Acct. Fishes Norfolk in Wks. (1835) IV. 328 The gills of these fish we found beset with a kind of sea-louse.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 393 Corephium... The Sea-Louse. This creature..is often found sticking, like the Limpite, to the rocks.
1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. at Isopoda The genus Cymothoa..is called the sea louse by fishermen on the coast.
2. The crab Limulus moluccensis; = Molucca crab n. at Molucca n. 1.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > order Xiphosura or Merostomata > [noun] > genus Limulus > member of
king crabc1612
horse-foot1672
Molucca crab1681
sea-louse1681
horse-hoof1699
horseshoe1775
saucepan crab1863
horseshoe-crab1865
fiddle-fish1867
xiphosurid1969
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §vii. iii. 177 The Sharp-Tail'd Sea-Louse. Pediculus marinus cauda acuta.
1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 310 In winter they [sc. Stares]..feed on what are called the sea-lice, or cancer pulex of Linnæus.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Cypraeidae > member of (cowrie)
Venus-shell1589
Venus-winkle1601
wart-gowry?1711
nipple cowry1713
smallpox1759
cowrie1777
serpent's skull1795
Arabian cowrie1804
mouse1815
sea-louse1815
serpent's head1815
wasp1815
niggerhead1895
1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 199 Cypræa Pediculus Sea Louse.
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