Definition of "psocid" []

• Any of various small, soft-bodied, sometimes winged insects of the order Psocoptera, which includes the booklice. (noun)

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• "I can't say as I know anything about exactly what type of psocid they are, but the feature that I immediately noticed that distinguished your beasties as psocids were the super-long antennae."
• "KUCEROVA, Z. and ZUSKA, J. (1991) Susceptibility of the psocid pest Liposcelis bostrychophilus to methoprene and to a new juvenoid.pp. 565-570."
• "" You press your eye against the eyepiece until, like the row of stiff bristles on the leg of a psocid, your lash rakes and combs the optical glass."