verminous

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Related topics: Insects

ver·min·ous /ˈvɜːmɪnəs $ ˈvɜːr-/ adjective formal HBIcovered with insects that bite 孳生害虫的 a pair of verminous old cats 一对身上生满虫的老猫

Examples from the Corpus

verminous• He was a bullet-headed child whose shaven hair showed that he had recently been sent to the cleansing station as verminous.• It was known that many of them had sympathy with Mosley and his verminous bunch.• Gleeson opened one verminous eye and he looked quickly away.• And the ragamuffin kids: unwashed kids, hungry kids, artful kids, verminous kids, nice kids and unholy terrors.• There was a handful of verminous women, too, and even a few sickly children.