flea
has definitions from the fields of biology,zoology
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[ noun ] (biology,zoology) any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap
Used in print (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)The women said they had seen him wave an exhausted farewell ; but he might have been shooing_away the fleas that hopped from his yellow dog onto him . Related terms insect ectoparasite sticktight dog_flea Pulex_irritans chigoe cat_flea Siphonaptera |
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