insect vs bird louse

bird louse vs insect

insect and bird louse both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
insect	Yes	No	No	No
bird louse	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bird louse is a hyponym of insect; that is, bird louse is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than insect:

insect: small air-breathing arthropod
bird louse: wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

Other hyponyms of insect include social insect, ephemeral, ephemeron, holometabola, metabola, defoliator, pollinator, gallfly, mecopteran, collembolan, springtail, proturan, telsontail, beetle, web spinner, louse, sucking louse, biting louse, louse, flea, dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects, leaf-miner, leaf miner, hymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect, worker, termite, white ant, orthopteran, orthopteron, orthopterous insect, phasmid, phasmid insect, dictyopterous insect, bug, bug, hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect, heteropterous insect, homopteran, homopterous insect, psocopterous insect, ephemerid, ephemeropteran, plecopteran, stone fly, stonefly, neuropteran, neuropteron, neuropterous insect, odonate, trichopteran, trichopteron, trichopterous insect, thysanuran insect, thysanuron, thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect, earwig, lepidopteran, lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect, pupa, imago, queen.

insect (noun)	bird louse (noun)
small air-breathing arthropod	wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds
a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

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