Definition of "booklice" []

• Plural form of booklouse. (noun)

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• "The term "lice" in the names of "booklice" and "barklice" is somewhat misleading, for none of these insects is parasitic, and relatively few are louselike in appearance."
• "Less than a half an hour later, it turned out that I was wrong once again; the creatures from the garage were instead identified as psocopterans also called psocids, booklice or barklice."
• "* It takes some trawling through the book to discover that by "mites" in insect collections, Browne probably means "booklice", i.e. Psocoptera."