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Definition of Sea louse
1. Noun. Marine isopod crustacean.
Medical Definition of Sea louse
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Louse
Literary usage of Sea louse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Sporting Magazine (1840)
"Theoph. It is impossible to conjecture even. It has been said that they do so
thus early, in order to rid themselves of the sea louse (the ..."
2. Letters to a Salmon Fisher's Sons by Alfred Henry Chaytor (1910)
"Now this fraudulent little beast is almost the same size as a sea-louse, ...
The sea-louse has a waist and a sort of tail—is shaped roughly like the figure ..."
3. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by Royal Society of Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (1825)
"In reference to the length of time the sea-louse re- mains upon fish after leaving
the sea, he observes, " I do not think it remains many days; ..."
4. The Edinburgh Annual Register by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1827)
"Mr Johnstone says, in reference to their visits to rivers, " One evident object
is to get clear of the vermin termed the sea-louse, which infests them ..."
5. A View of the Present State of the Salmon and Channel-fisheries, and of the by James Cornish (1824)
"... sea-louse does not remain many days after the fish come into fresh water; they
go off by degrees. The breeding season is the same in all places, ..."
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