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louse - use in sentences
Modifies a noun
- insecticide: Preventing head louse infection Insecticides must not be used for " prophylaxis " of head louse infection.
Converse of object
- chew: Mallophaga literally means ' wool eating ' and the Amblycera and Ischnocera are known as chewing lice.
- eradicate: On these days, if you miss the action you need to take, you will fail to eradicate the lice for certain.
- tick: Contagious diseases such as pneumonia are passed from cage to cage rapidly, as are fleas, ticks, lice, and mites.
- kill: The comb's teeth will electronically kill the lice, without causing harm to the scalp.
- treat: You can buy lotions to treat head lice over the counter at the chemist.
Noun used with modifier
- crab: In shape it is rather squat, hence the common name, crab louse.
- wood: Malcolm quoted a sample menu - snail soup, fried sole with wood louse sauce, mutton with wireworm sauce, moths on toast.
Modifies a noun
- infestation: The dynamics of cattle lice infestation in a group of cattle kept over two winter periods.
- comb: The program utilizes a scientific method for removing lice from the hair using a metal lice comb.
- shampoo: To buy your head lice shampoo now, just click the tick!
- infection: Around 50,000 to 60,000 people suffer from a head lice infection each year.
- egg: Did the lice eggs I put in the camp inmates ' clothes hatch in time to improve their performance?
Noun used with modifier
- head: You can buy lotions to treat head lice over the counter at the chemist.
- sea: In many areas, sea lice are the greatest single problem for farmed salmon.
- salmon: Work has also been carried out on feeding behavior in salmon lice.
- feather: Ornithologists believe the formic acid that the ants release may kill feather lice.
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