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Definitions of flea in various dictionaries:
noun - any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap
Any of various small, wingless, bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera that have legs adapted for jumping and are parasitic on warmblooded animals.
Any of various small crustaceans that resemble or move like fleas, such as the water flea.
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| Dog hounder |
| Circus participant |
| Kind of collar |
| Lover of fur? |
| Kind of bag |
| Kind of market |
| Dog botherer |
| Bother for a boxer |
| Dog biter |
| Kind of market or circus |
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| Tiny tabby tormentor(4) |
| This tiny insect pest, Pulex irritans, can leap more than 130 times its own height |
| This common pest is quite the leaper: |
| The chigoe, or chigger, is also known as the sand type of this pest |
| Species of this insect include ctenocephalides canis & ctenocephalides felis |
| This Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist plays on Mick Jagger's "Wandering Spirit" |
| Guinness says this cat pest has been known to jump a height of 34 inches |
| Feydeau's "La Puce a L'Oreille" translates to one of these "in her ear" |
| By carrying plague, this tiny insect killed 1/3 of the population of Europe in the 14th century |
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| a small wingless jumping insect which feeds on the blood of mammals and birds. It sometimes transmits diseases through its bite, including plague and myxomatosis. |
| any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap |
| A small wingless jumping insect which feeds on the blood of mammals and birds. It sometimes transmits diseases through its bite, including plague and myxomatosis. |
| a very small jumping insect that feeds on the blood of animals and humans |
| a very small jumping insect without wings that feeds on the blood of animals and people |
| Any of various small, wingless, bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera that have legs adapted for jumping and are parasitic on warm-blooded animals. |
| Any of various small crustaceans that resemble or move like fleas, such as the water flea. |
| a flea in (one's) ear An annoying hint or a stinging rebuke. |
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Fleas are small flightless insects that form the order Siphonaptera. As external parasites of mammals and birds, they live by consuming the blood of their hosts. Adults are up to about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and usually brown. Bodies flattened sideways enable them to move through their host's fur or feathers; strong claws prevent them from being dislodged. They lack wings, and have mouthparts adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood and hind legs adapted for jumping. The latter enable them to leap a distance of some 50 times their body length, a feat second only to jumps made by froghoppers. Larvae are worm-like with no limbs; they have chewing mouthparts and feed on organic debris. * Over 2,500 species of fleas have been described worldwide. The Siphonaptera are most closely related to the snow scorpionflies (Boreidae), placing them within the endopterygote insect order Mecoptera. * Fleas arose in the early Cretaceous, most likely as ectoparasites of mammals, before moving on to other gro |