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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PEDICULUS

Pe *dic "u *lus, n.; pl. Pediculi. Etym: [L., a louse. ] (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: A genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the common lice of man. See Louse.