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单词 whale-louse
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whale-louse
whale-louse n. a small crustacean of the genus Cyamus, parasitic on whales.
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whale-louse1774
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 203 A small animal, of the shell-fish kind, called the Whale-louse, that sticks to its body.
1916 R. C. Andrews Whale Hunting with Gun & Camera xxi. 248 This growth [on the snout of the right whale] is produced by whale lice.
1952 J. Fisher Fulmar xviii. 423 He writes of the fulmars ‘searching out’ whale-lice.
1972 National Geographic Oct. 579 (caption) Communities of whale lice..some of them half an inch long, cling to the growths [on the head of each right whale].
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