mallophagous
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mallophagous (not comparable)
- Feeding on feathers.
- 1988 January 14, T. de Meeûs, “Santa Rosalia Revisited: or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Parasites in 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'?”, in Parasitology Today:
- The bird Ibis falcinellus is parasitized by at least seven species of mallophagous insects, each of which is specialized on a single feather type.