Defenition of the word nit

• Defenition of the word nit

  • egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
  • a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source

Hypernyms for the word nit

• • egg
  • luminance unit

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• • What is nypa
  • The definition of genus nipa
  • The interpretation of the word nipa
  • What is meant by piquance
  • The lexical meaning snip off
  • The dictionary meaning of the word nip off
  • The grammatical meaning of the word niobrara river
  • Meaning of the word niobrara
  • Literal and figurative meaning of the word atomic number 41
  • The origin of the word nitella
  • Synonym for the word genus nitella
  • Antonyms for the word aqua fortis
  • Homonyms for the word nitric bacteria
  • Hyponyms for the word nitrobacteria
  • Holonyms for the word nitric oxide
  • Hypernyms for the word nitrify
  • Proverbs and sayings for the word nitrobacter
  • Translation of the word in other languages genus nitrobacter